Roots Rabat: “God’s envoy” by Amina Abdoulaye Mamani stands up to terrorism

The film “L’envoyée de Dieu” by Nigerian director Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, screened this Wednesday evening at the Rabat cinema, features a girl prepared to kill people but who will refuse to accomplish its “mission”.

The short film “L’envoyée de Dieu” by Nigerien director Amina Abdoulaye Mamani depicts a 12-year-old girl, Fatima, kidnapped in a market by terrorists.

The latter will submit the girl to funeral rites in order to accomplish the work of God, according to them which consists of blowing himself up in a market with an explosive belt.

The explosive belt marked with 10 minutes was attached to the girl and the girl was dropped off at a market in a village in order to kill those whom the terrorists call “enemies of God”.

Fatima discovers that this is the market where her mother sells and this creates an inner journey in her where she passes from the present to the past. The sight of his mother makes him want to remove the explosive but cannot. She will finally move away from the market so that the belt does not explode on the spot as the terrorists wanted.

According to director Amina Abdoulaye Mamani, the title of the film has two meanings “The first meaning, the girl is the envoy of God for the people who sent him to kill people and in the other direction, the girl is the sent from God because she spared people by walking away from the market. She preferred to sacrifice herself by going out of the market”.

Amina Abdoulaye Mamani explained that her film denounces the abduction of girls, children and women by Boko Haram (terrorist group) in countries such as Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Cameroon and which transform them into suicide bombers.

“I always wondered in whose name God they act and why they don’t send their own children,” she wondered.

At the last Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the film won four special prizes, including the prize from the Burkina-Niger Episcopal Conference, and the special Gambéré Ernest prize.

The screening of the film is being held on the sidelines of the 1st edition of Roots Rabat-Days of Pan-African Cinema which is being held from Sunday March 12 to Thursday March 16, 2023 in Rabat, African Capital of Culture under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI .

Source: Burkina Information Agency