Keita! The Voice of the Griot

Directed by Dani Kouyaté

With Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Sotigui Kouyaté and Claire Sanon

It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit. It turns out that the old man is a griot, a West African musician/entertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies. The position of a griot is a time-honored one and passed down from father to son for many generations.