
Sön 27 mars - Bio Rio 11.00
En uppskakande och välgjord dokumentär som ställer relevanta frågor om politikers flathet och om kopplingen mellan tradition och kvinnors ställning. ”Att vara född kvinna är att vara född i skuggan av en misstanke”, som regissören säger.
Info om filmen:
- Regissör: Yaba Badoe
- Ghana

- 2010
- 55 min
- Engelska och mampele, engelsk text
Om regissören
Yaba Bodoe är författare, journalist, forskare och filmare från Ghana med utbildning i Storbritannien. Hon har sedan många år tillbaka studerat hur tron på häxor påverkar kvinnor och samhället i Ghana. Hennes debutroman True Murder (2009) handlar om kvinnor som anklagas för häxkonst.
English version
The Witches of Gambaga
A documentary about the belief in witchcraft, which is still strongly rooted in certain parts of Ghana, an otherwise modern country. Women are accused on lose grounds of being witches, accusations that are proven right or wrong through the slaughtering of hens to see how they die. We meet some women who have sought refuge in a “witch camp” in the town of Gambaga. There they hide, far away from their families, until the day a relative comes to bring the back home. For some of them, the wait is very long. A disturbing and well made documentary that poses interesting questions about the weakness of politicians, and the link between tradition and women’s position in society. “To be born a woman, means being born under the shadow of suspicion” says the director.
The director Yaba Bodoe (born in 1955) is a UK educated writer, journalist, researcher and filmmaker from Ghana. She has spent years researching how the belief in witchcraft impacts on society and Ghana’s women, a research that also inspired her first novel True Murder (2009). The Witches of Gambaga is another contribution to the debate.

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