In this Skype interview, Branwen Okpako, director of The Education of Auma Obama talks about her journey in the making

Exploring dilemmas of culture and race, Sarah Bouyain’s debut feature tells dovetailing stories of African women living in France. Amy is a young biracial woman whose mother is from Burkina Faso. At the age of eight, she was “reclaimed” by her father and went to live with him in France. His death 20 or so years later prompts a desire to visit her birthplace and reconnect with her other parent. In a parallel story, a middle-aged white woman is learning Dioula, a West African language spoken in Burkina Faso, from a taciturn woman named Mariam. In carefully precise scenes, Bouyain explores the displacement that both Mariam and Amy face in a country that is familiar but not quite home.

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Today’s Senegal.
Ramata is a 50 years old woman of bewitching beauty. She has been married for 30 years with Matar Samb, a former Public Prosecutor who then became Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an upper crust area of Dakar.

Ngor Ndong is 25. Strong, mysterious and homeless, he is an occasional criminal, well-known by the Police.

One evening, by a matter of chance, Ramata hides a taxi whose driver is Ngor Ndong. First hesitant, Ramata finally agrees to follow him to the Copacabana Bar located in Dakar’s seedy parts.