A Golden Life
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1h 24m
-- Dir. Boubacar Sangaré - 83min - 2023 - Burkina Faso, Benin, France --
Rasmané, alias Bolo, 16, is a teenage gold miner at the Bantara site in Burkina Faso. Like all teenagers of his age, he is playful and dreamy.
His daily routine is organised around cooking, working in the gallery and going down to dig at a depth of more than 100 metres. His hope hangs on a rope that ascends indefinitely from
the depths. He hopes to find gold with which to build his future. But the long days of labour are fruitless. As time and his trials go by, his body changes, his features become more
pronounced. Inside, he gradually loses his childhood innocence.
When Rasmané finally obtains bags of ore, he transports them to the “yaar”, the “city” built from scratch on the edge of the mines. There he meets Missa and Dramane, 12 and 13 years old, two cart-driving friends in charge of transporting the ore from the gold miners. They accompany Rasmané through the various stages of the ore’s transformation, until the long-awaited moment when the gold is turned into money.
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