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LA VOIX ET LA VOIE DES ABSENTS

Documentary

Director
Yvette HABERISONI
Burundi

Synopsis

« The Voice and the Path of the Absent » is a documentary about personal grief and memory. Through intimate conversations between the filmmaker and others who have lost someone close, the film explores the silent weight of absence. The death of a loved one becomes the starting point of a universal story about separation, memories, and resilience. Made of archives, everyday objects, and symbolic scenes, the film offers a sensitive reflection on those who are gone, and those who keep living with their absence. The film is an homage to the absent, and to those who carry their memory.

Intention Note

The story of “The Voice and the Path of the Absent” is like a journey.
It uses archive images, meaningful objects, and symbolic scenes (like roads, empty chairs, or landscapes). Sound will play a central role: testimonial voices, natural ambiences, silences and original music to show the emotions. Natural lighting and simple settings will enhance the authenticity and vulnerability of each moment. The visual approach is minimalistic, often filmed in daylight, with steady shots so people can speak freely.
The editing mixes words, silences, and visuals to show different feelings of grief.
This film is an homage told through sound and image. It is a way of carrying memory differently, with accuracy, sensitivity, and hope.

About us

Les Ateliers de Grand-Bassam is brought to life by Grand-Bassam Project, a non-profit association that embodies excellence in the film and audiovisual industry. The association is an organization of filmmakers, producers and cultural industry professionals from Ivory Coast, the continent and beyond, who help incubate performing arts and audiovisual projects by applying alternative methods of management, production, marketing and distribution in countries across the continent.

Grand-Bassam Project’s main objective is to contribute to the emergence of a solid, internationally competitive African cultural industry, notably through the development of the performing arts and audiovisual sector, capable of contributing to improving the economic impact of culture and consolidating the employability of young people.

Specifically, the objectives of the Grand-Bassam Project are to :

– Implement and consolidate an incubator for cultural projects and professional training workshops for artists and producers from Ivory Coast and other countries on the continent.

– Contribute to the reappropriation by Ivorian cultural players of the conception and governance of cultural policies, in partnership with public decision-makers at national level.

– Contribute to the dissemination of cinematographic works from the continent Formalize and implement a strategy for the implementation of activities, a risk management plan, as well as a monitoring and evaluation plan for all actions.

– Produce and/or co-produce performing arts and audiovisual works and projects for dissemination on the continent and internationally.

– Intensify artistic education initiatives aimed at children, young people and the general public.

Grand-Bassam Project is in the process of launching its program of activities, which include training, production, distribution, image education and consulting for the first edition of the Ateliers de Grand-Bassam. In keeping with its management strategy, the company’s aim is to combine production activities with socio-educational initiatives.

By working closely with sister organizations in Ivory Coast who share the same passion, Grand-Bassam Project will contribute to the future of cinema in Côte d’Ivoire and beyond.

The association capitalizes on the experience acquired over the last ten years by the Ouaga Film Lab, and projects will be carried out with the expertise required to increase the competitiveness of Ivorian and African filmmakers on the world stage.