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Although Cannes Film Festival is far from being an easy one, especially as she has to promote her new full-length film, find distributors and sellers, Rahmatou Keïta never seems tired. On the contrary. She appears to be in top form, with conversations often interspersed with laughter. On the phone, in her voice which hums and carries, she can speak for hours about her passion for the cinema.But what above all interests this former journalist from France 2, France Inter, France 5, who won several times for her work, is to tell stories that nobody talks about, especially on the African continent. Over time, she gradually leaves journalism aside. Not that she stays away from her profession, but simply because the passion for cinema eventually grips her. As if the pieces pieced themselves together naturally for this author of numerous lengthy reports and documentaries. “I always say that my job is journalism and cinema my passion,” she likes to say. Today, she has no less than eight films to her credit: “Djassaree 1997”, “Femmes d’Afrique”, “Le Nerf de la douleur,” “Une journée à l’école Gustave-Doré” “Les États généraux de la psychanalyse”, “Al’lèèssi… une actrice africaine”, and henceforth “Jin’naariyâ!”, which she intends to defend with all his energy.
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