Binta y La Gran Idea
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| Original title | Binta y La Gran Idea |
| Country of production | Senegal , Spain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Javier Fesser |
| script | Javier Fesser |
| production | Tus Ojos SL |
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Binta y La Gran Idea (Eng. Binta and the great idea ) is a short film set in southwest Senegal that was financed by the Spanish department of UNICEF . It is the last of five short films by different directors that together make up the film En el mundo a cada rato .
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As the narrator, Binta first introduces us to her parents. Her father is the fisherman Sabu Diatta, and his friend Souleyman raves about the world of tubabs with their material wealth, their ingenuity and their strength in weapons. Tubabs are mainly used to refer to fair-skinned people in Europe. Her mother is the field worker Aminata Kamara, who grows rice in a cooperative with other women. They live in a place near Bignona in the south of Senegal.
It is shown to Binta during a school lesson. The teacher gives a lecture on the need to respect each other with their differences. Binta is cited as an example of short stature. When she volunteers to wipe the board, the teacher agrees with the class that no one will laugh. Although everyone agrees, they snort and can hardly contain themselves with laughter when it becomes apparent that Binta has only reached the lower part of the board, where nothing is written on it.
Binta sees it as a privilege to go to school and learn something. Your cousin Soda couldn't. She stands by the schoolyard fence with a load of wood that she carries on her head and longingly watches the students dance and play during the break. The teacher practices a play with the students on exactly the same topic. When Binta grows up, she would like to be a politician, but she doesn't seem to know the word for it yet.
When Binta comes home, her parents discuss her father's idea. Binta is supposed to help him write letters, which is why he dictates to her, but writes too slowly. Fatu, Soda's mother, picks fruits for a living, which she sells to traders from the city, who, however, ruthlessly betray her when it comes to payment. Binta comments that her aunt never went to school. During the rehearsals for the play, the teacher discusses the possibilities of the imagination with the actors. A boy wants fireworks.
In the course of the plot there are always idyllic scenes of everyday life, highlighted with regional music, for example a school class full of happy, painting children.
Binta's father first takes his letter to a subordinate authority, while someone else brings Fatu's family past him unrecognized, as Fatu is again bedridden. Sabu Diatta is sent with his letter to the next higher authority in Bignona and from there to the governor in Ziguinchor . Each time another piece of the letter is read aloud. It turns out that Binta's father wants to adopt a Tubab child so that they can develop, learn what is important in life, and thus do their part in the advancement of humanity.
Soda and her father are also present when the play is performed in town. She looks on in disgruntlement, stands up during the closing argument and shamefully confronts her father with the wish to be allowed to go to school as well. All those present are now talking to their father and want to persuade him not to deny her further education.
The teacher and his students imagine that the palm trees are fireworks, their eyes glide up the trunks and the tops of the trees symbolize the explosion of the rockets.
Honourings and prices
At the 2007 Academy Awards , the film was nominated in the Best Short Film category.
Web links
- Binta y la Gran Idea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez: Binta y la gran idea. Creatividad y derechos Humanos ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Revista Aularia. El país de las aulas , on the University of Huelva website .
