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TILÉ

Fiction

Director
Orokiatou BARO
Burkina Faso

Synopsis

Guimba, an 18-year-old orphan, has been working for seven years at the traditional gold mining site of Sonsoribougou and dreams of making his fortune there until the day he meets Yendi. The daughter of the village major, Yendi, an editor for her high school newspaper, is taking advantage of her vacation to write a report on child mining. A series of events brings them together. A brief rapprochement, as the young student quickly returns to her life, but the deep discussions she has with the young gold miner disrupt her plans. He eventually returns to the capital where, after a journey through the desert, he finds the warmth of home and sees a path for art.

Intention Note

A young teenager at a crossroads finds meaning in his life thanks to meeting a beautiful, authentic, and inspiring young woman. «Tilé» questions the quest for happiness. Despite precarious living and working conditions, a large segment of young people remains committed to love, perseverance, and creativity. This film presents this combative and uninhibited youth. For them, it sounds like an invitation to explore their full potential, just like Guimba.
It’s a culturally rich and humanly touching film that pays tribute to ecological art and to talents who are unaware of their worth or who simply need a spotlight, like Guimba.

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.