Sylvain Dando Pare

Suicide bombers are chosen by chance and their funeral rites accomplish the work of God. On this particular day the envoy of God is twelve -year-old Fatima. She is left in a village market, wearing an explosive belt with ten minutes until she kills the enemies of God. But this is the market where Fatima’s mother works and where she rediscovers life. For ten minutes we accompany her on the nail-biting journey of a martyr from the present to the past. With one minute left on the clock, she faces her mother. Confronted by her own helplessness, will time stop?

Jihadist violence has been on the rise in Burkina Faso since 2012, and it has had devastating effects (relocation, poverty, famine, decline of tourism) that director Seidou Samba Touré candidly explores by filming Burkinabe villagers with his camera.