Bintou

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Bintou | image = | caption = screenshot | director = Fanta Régina Nacro | producer = Claire Lajoumard | writer = Fanta Régina Nacro<ref name="FRN">{{cite web |title=Bintou (2001) |work=fanta-nacro.com |publisher=Fanta Régina Nacro |url=http://www.fanta-nacro.com/films/bintou.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122212601/http://www.fanta-nacro.com/films/bintou.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-22 |accessdate=2007-12-29 |language=French }}</ref> | narrator = | starring = Hyppolite Ouangrawa<br />Alima Salouka | music = Yacouba Compaoré<br />Maï Lingani<ref name="FRN" /> | cinematography = Nara Keo Kosal | editing = Nano Chesnais | distributor = Zimmedia | released = {{Film date|2001|01|29|Netherlands|df=y}} | runtime = 31 minutes<ref name="FRN" /> | country = Burkina Faso<br />France | language = More<ref name="FRN" /> | budget = | gross = }} '''''Bintou''''' (also known as '''''A Close-Up on Bintou''''') is a 2001 Burkinabé short film directed by Fanta Régina Nacro. It formed part of the 2002 collection ''Mama Africa''.

==Plot== Mother-of-three Bintou, is beaten by her husband Abel, for using housekeeping money to pay for her daughter to go to school to receive the education that she was denied in her own childhood. He believes that only his sons should be educated. Since her husband refuses to pay for a daughter to be educated, Bintou is determined to earn the money herself, however, the only skill she has is growing millet sprouts. She has to find the pots, and obtain sacks of millet from the storekeeper, while her husband continually sabotages her efforts. <ref name="FRN" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Mama Africa |publisher=BFI |date=2005-07-21 |url=http://secure.bfi.org.uk/about/media/releases/2005/2005-07-21-mama-africa.pdf |format= |access-date=2008-02-09 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Cast== *Hyppolite Ouangrawa as Abel, Bintou's husband *Alima Salouka as Bintou

==Awards== ''Bintou'' won several festival awards in 2001 and 2002 including at the Cannes Film Festival, Amiens International Film Festival, Bermuda International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival and the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival.<ref name="FRN" /><ref>{{cite web | title =Awards for Bintou | publisher =Internet Movie Database | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290468/awards | accessdate =2007-12-29 }}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0290468}} *{{in lang|fr}} [https://archive.today/20130122212601/http://www.fanta-nacro.com/films/bintou.html ''Bintou''] at the director's official site

Category:2001 films Category:More-language films Category:2001 short films Category:Burkinabe drama films Category:Burkinabe short films Category:French drama short films Category:2001 French films {{BurkinaFaso-film-stub}} {{Short-film-stub}}