Kadiatou Konaté

Fatou Cissé accompanies her father, malien director Souleymane Cissé, through a trip down his film career, painting an intimate and poetic picture of one of Africa’s most celebrated actors.

This short uses puppets to tell the story of a child who speaks, eats, and walks from the day he is born. After a few days, he sets off in search of his brother. He finds him and they continue down the road together. What follows is the adventure of an ungrateful little boy who drags his brother along through his follies and mischief.

The wise masters tell the King of Ségou of the birth of a boy constituting a threat to his power. In Macina, not far from Ségou, Fatoumata consults the witch doctor...