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The Cora Player

1996 7 min
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Two young Africans from different social backgrounds want to defy tradition and be free to love each other. This Burkina Faso/Canada co-production is based on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which particularly upholds the right to love freely, blind to convention and social class. An animated film without words for twelve to seventeen yers olds.

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The Cora Player

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Two young Africans from different social backgrounds want to defy tradition and be free to love each other. This Burkina Faso/Canada co-production is based on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which particularly upholds the right to love freely, blind to convention and social class. An animated film without words for twelve to seventeen yers olds.

Children and Youth Developing Countries Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism Law and Crime All subjects
  • director
    Cilia Sawadogo
  • animation
    Cilia Sawadogo
  • executive producer
    Thérèse Descary
    Gaston Kaboré
  • associate producer
    Françoise Wera
  • script
    Cilia Sawadogo
    Gaston Kaboré
  • computer graphics
    René Fontaine
  • sound
    Issa Nabi Traore
  • editing
    Christian Marcotte
  • sound editing
    Christian Marcotte
  • music
    Abdoulaye Cissé
    Sami Rama
  • participation
    Sami Rama

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Guide 1
Pre-viewing, ask students to think about social class, and moments in history and fiction when categorization was used to dismiss human rights. Why are segregated groups formed (gangs, schools, athletic clubs…)? Should these groups be exclusive? Prepare students for the film by explaining the caste differences between the two main characters. Have students write about a moment in their lives when they experienced discrimination as a witness or a victim, or engaged in it themselves.

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