Kini & Adams

Credits

Name: Kini & Adams

Country: Burkina Faso

Year of publication: 1997

Format: 35 mm

Color: color

Language : OF engl.

Direction: Ouédraogo, Idrissa

Screenplay: Ouédraogo, Idrissa; Lorelle, Olivier; Amigorena, Santiago

Camera: Meurisse, Jean-Paul

Editing: Coleman, Monica

Sound: Pibarot, Jacques

Actor: Kani, John; Mohloki, David

Abstract

In a no-man`s-land in southern Africa, a huge area where poor peasants try to survive, two friends dream of moving and trying to make it in the city. Their friends and family make fun of them as they attempt to repair an old car. Under pressure from Kini`s wife, they finally give up until a new worksite in the region provides new job opportunities. At last their dream can come true, an unexpected rivalry grows between Kini and Adams; it puts their plans of success in jeopardy and turns them into mortal enemies...

It is the poignant story of a friendship between two men who share a common dream of starting a business. Without money to buy a car, they decide to assemble one, collecting old spare parts one after the other. But, as their relationships stumble against human flaws of their persisiting unreconciled differences. (Africultures)