Has God Forsaken Africa?

Has God Forsaken Africa?
Directed by	Musa Dieng Kala
Screenplay by	Musa Dieng Kala
Produced by	Colette Loumède Christian Medawar
Cinematography	Alex Margineanu
Edited by	Marie Hamelin
Music by	Musa Dieng Kala
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	2008 (2008)
Running time	52 minutes
Country	Canada

Has God Forsaken Africa? (original French title: Dieu a-t-il quitté l’Afrique?) is a Canadian 2008 documentary film.

Synopsis

Brussels, August 1999. Two teenagers from Guinea are found dead in the landing gear of a plane arriving from Conakry. Each year, thousands of young Africans risk their lives to flee the African continent. Shocked by this phenomenon, the Senegalese-born director Musa Dieng Kala returns to Dakar to try to understand why they do it. He films five young adults seeking to immigrate to the West at any cost reflecting the international indifference, the indifference of the African leaders and a society with no resources.

Awards

• SCIC Global Issues Award, Yorkton Film Festival, 2009
• Bank of Africa Special Prize, Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2009
• AQCC Award for the Best Short or Medium Length Documentary, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, 2009

References

• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)

External links

• Watch Has God Forsaken Africa? at the National Film Board of Canada