Sia : le rêve du python = Sia, the dream of the python
Dani Kouyaté (Director, Screenwriter), Claude Gilaizeau (Producer), Sotigui Kouyaté (Actor), Habib Dembélé (Actor), Hamadoun Kassogué (Actor), Ibrahim Baba Cissé (Actor), Fatoumata Diawara (Actor), Moussa Diagana, Sahélis Productions, Productions de la lanterne, Burkina Faso Direction de la cinématographie nationale, ArtMattan Productions, Facets Video (Firm)
In this modern adaptation of a seventh-century African legend, a poverty-stricken city in Kombi is dominated by a tyrant king who, in order to bring back prosperity, is advised to sacrifice Sia, the most beautiful young virgin of the village, to a mystical snake god - but her fiancé rebels, the village becomes divided, and in the struggles which follow, characters confront issues of honor, corruption, and power
DVD Video, Bambara, 2007
Distributed by ArtMattan Productions, New York, NY, 2007