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Why?

Senegal / France
2004, 8min.

Script/Dir.: Sokhna Amar, Dir. of Phot.: Pierre Souchar, Edit.: Alioune Mbow.

For ten years, she has kept it a secret that she was raped when she was still young. A Senegalese woman tells her story. Tranquil images of the sea and a man in a small boat accompany her account. These images contrast starkly with what is told, but they are a fitting illustration.

Amar, Sokhna

Born 1973, Mbour, Senegal.
In 1998 she got diploma of Marokko Applied Information Science and Management University, Department of Management. From 2001 to 2002 attended classes of screenwriting and documentary filmmaking, which played a great role in her life and where her directing skills were noticed. At present she shoots her documentary films.

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Why? (2004)