"Women Social conditions." . . "Africa, West." . . "Children Drama." . . "Tales Africa, West." . . "Burkina Faso. Direction du Cinéma." . . "Social conditions." . . "Rural women Social conditions." . . "Africa." . . "Africa" . "Rural women Africa Social conditions." . . "Tales." . . "Children in motion pictures." . . "Village communities Africa Drama." . . "Fables, African." . . "Mute persons." . . "Foreign films Burkina Faso." . . "Upper Volta. Direction du cinéma." . . "Tales Burkina Faso." . . "Foreign films." . . "Children." . . "Women Africa Social conditions." . . "Mossi (African people)" . . "California Newsreel (Firm)" . . "Mutism Drama." . . . . . "An apolitical pastoral romance set in Burkina Faso before the coming of Islam or Christianity. A mute, memoryless child is found under a tree by a peddler, and is adopted by his village who name him Wend Kuuni or God's Gift. A series of flashbacks show how bigotry and cruelty drove the child to his adopted village. Gaston Kabore adapts the measured rhythms and formal compositions of African oral storytelling to make his film more accessible to villagers, and uses this simple fable to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can unify and heal a modern society beset by dislocation, individualism and social conflict." . . . . . . "In the literary tradition of an African tale, this film is the story of a little boy whose traumatic experiences cause him to lose one family and find another. The action takes place in Burkina Faso on the West African savannah in pre-colonial times." . . "Wend kuuni le don de Dieu" . "Wênd Kûuni Le don de Dieu" . . . . . . . "\"A mute, memoryless child is found under a tree by a peddler's villge who in gratitude rename him, Wend Kuuni or \"God's gift.\" In a series of flashbacks, we learn how bigotry and cruelty ironically drove Wend Kuuni to discover the compassion of his adopted village.\"--Container." . . . . "Internet videos" . . "In the literary tradition of an African tale, this film is the story of a little boy whose traumatic experiences cause him to lose one family and find another." . . "In the literary tradition of an African tale, this film is the story of a little boy whose traumatic experiences cause him to lose one family and find another. The action takes place in Burkino Faso on the West African savannah in pre-colonial times." . . . "W end Ku uni = God's gift" . . . . . . . "A film from the African country of Burkina Faso in Moré with English sub-titles. A mute memoryless boy is found under a tree and taken in by a village." . . . . . . "Feature films" . . . . . "A mute boy is found abandoned and raised in an African village by a weaver . The mute regains his powers of speech only after a shock, then reveals his origins and reasons for dumbness." . . "A mute, memoryless child is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. In gratitude they rename him Wênd Kûuni, or \"God's gift.\" In a series of flashbacks, we learn how bigotry and cruelty ironically drove Wênd Kûuni to discover the compassion of his adopted village." . . . . "Wend Kuuni (God's Gift)"@en . . . . . . . . "Wênd Kûuni Le Don de Dieu" . "\"A pastoral romance set in Burkina Faso before the coming of Islam or Christianity. A mute, memoryless child is found under a tree by a peddler. He is adopted by the peddler's village who in gratitude rename him, Wend Kuuni or God's gift. In a series of flashbacks, we learn how bigotry and cruelty ironically drove Wend Kuuni to discover the compassion of his adopted village\"--Container." . "Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to \"return to the sources\" of their culture, to recover a \"usable\" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni (\"God's Gift\") by the grateful village which adopts him. Kaboré uses this simple tale to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can still provide answers to many problems besetting modern Africa, fractured by rural dislocation, refugees and political conflict."@en . . . . . . . "Wênd Kuûni God's gift" . "Wênd Kûuni Le Don de Dieu = The Gift of God" . . . . . . "A mute foundling is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. The mute regains his powers of speech only after a shock, then reveals his origins and reasons for dumbness." . . . . . . "Wênd Kûuni The Gift of God" . . . . . . . . "Gift of God" . "Foreign language films" . . "Don de Dieu" . . . . . . . . . "Wênd Kuûni Le don de Dieu = The gift of God" . . . . . "Wend Kuuni God's gift" . . . "\"Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to \"return to the sources\" of their culture, to recover a \"usable\" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni (\"God's Gift\") by the grateful village which adopts him. Kaboré uses this simple tale to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can still provide answers to many problems besetting modern Africa, fractured by rural dislocation, refugees and political conflict.\"--Distributor's abstract." . . "Documentary films"@en . "Video recordings" . . "Drama" . . . . . . . . . . "Motion pictures" . "A mute foundling is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. In gratitude they rename him Wênd Kûuni, or \"Gods gift.\" The mute regains his powers of speech only after a shock, then reveals his origins and the bigotry and cruelty that led to his dumbness." . . "Wênd kûuni =(Le don de dieu)" . . "Fiction films" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Wênd Kûuni Le don de Dieu = God's gift" . "God's gift" . . "Village communities." . . "Mutism." . . "Burkina Faso" . . "Burkina Faso." . "Women, Black Africa Social conditions." . . "Women, Black Social conditions." . . . . "Feature films." . . "Village communities Africa, West." . .