''Tilaï'' ("The Law") is a 1990 award-winning
Burkinabé drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
co-written, co-produced, and directed by
Idrissa Ouédraogo. It
premiered at the 1990
Toronto Festival of Festivals.
Plot
Saga returns to his village after a long absence, and finds that his father has married Nogma, his fiancee, during his leave. Nogma has become his second wife, and by law, Saga's mother. Saga runs away and builds a straw hut near the village.
Still in love, Saga and Nogma begin an affair, with Nogma telling her parents she is going to visit her aunt, then running to Saga's hut. After the affair is discovered, Saga's father decrees that he must die for dishonoring the family. Nogma's father hangs himself from a tree, and Nogma is disowned by her mother at her father's funeral. Saga's brother Kougri is selected to execute Saga. He pretends to kill Saga so as to restore the family's honor.
Tilaï
("Résumé"), Cinema-francais , Access date: 09 May 2022
Saga and Nogma then run away to another village, and the family falls apart. As Saga and Nogma begin to build a life, Nogma tells Saga that she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Kougri comes to regret his failure to kill Saga. After Saga's birth mother dies, Saga returns to the village, exposing Kougri's failure to carry out his father's orders. Kougri's father tells him he is banished. Kougri then picks up Saga's rifle and shoots him for having brought ruin to the family and his own life. He then walks off into exile and probable death.
Cast
* Rasmane Ouedraogo as Saga
* Ina Cissé as Nogma
* Roukietou Barry as Kuilga
* Assane Ouedraogo as Kougri
* Sibidou Sidibe as Poko
* Moumouni Ouedraogo as Tenga
* Mariam Barry as Bore
* Seydou Ouédraogo as Nomenaba
* Mariam Ouedraogo as Koudpoko
* Daouda Porgo as Porgo
* Kogre Warma as Maiga
* Mamadou Ganame as Ganame
* Azeta Porgo as Azeta
* Noufou Ouédraogo as The child
* Salif Ouedraogo as The peddler
* Amade Ganame as Villager
* Issaka Porgo as Villager
* Moumouni Selinga as Villager
* Adma Sidibe as Villager
* Boureima Warma as Villager
* Fati Ouedraogo as Villager
* Madi Derme as Cavalier
* Amidou Ouedraogo as Cavalier
Awards
''Tilaï'' won the Jury Grand Prize
A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence and render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.
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at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival
The 43rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 May 1990. The Palme d'Or went to '' Wild at Heart'' by David Lynch.
The festival opened with '' Dreams'', directed by Akira Kurosawa and closed with ''The Comfort of Strangers'', directed by Pau ...
Bibliography
Tilai (1990)
Corndog Chats, 16 February 2013, Adam Kuhn, Access date: 9 May 2022
A passion not to be denied
Reelingback, 28 February 2021, Michael Walsh (First publish: 28 June 1991), Access date: 9 May 2022
References
External links
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1990 films
1990 drama films
Films directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo
More-language films
Films set in Africa
Films set in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa
Burkinabé drama films
Cannes Grand Prix winners
{{FESPACO Best Original Score Prize, state=expanded