Document HRFF: Mulheres and Jikoo, A Wish

This double bill explores independent farming on the Eastern and Western coasts of Africa. This screening will be followed by a discussion with members of the Scottish Crofting Federation.

Mulheres (2014)
Dir. Elisa Bucchi, Nicola Bogo

Mulhueres is set in Zambezia, one of Mozambique's poorest regions and at the same time the most populous in the country. Work in the agricultural field is mainly done by women with 80% of women making up the agricultural workfoce . They play a key role in food security, nutrition fields and the family economy, but they are often victims of discrimination, domestic violence and social exclusion.
Bucchi and Bogo's film centres on two Zambezian women - revealing how they live, what they think, what they hide and what they invent every day to survive in a society that continues to discriminate them. A simple portrait documentary that reveals much more than one anticipates.

Jikoo, A Wish (2014)
Dir. Christophe Leroy, Adrian Camus

In Senegal the EU is making way for the “Delta du Saloum,” A national park on the country’s Atlantic coast, that is set to become a World Heritage Site. The only drawback is that there are people living in the area, some of them for generations, who have found their own way of co-existing with nature and have good reason to doubt that tourism can be sustainable. “Jikoo, a Wish” looks at this conflict between international agencies and the inhabitants of the village of Bakadadji. These people have a very simple wish: a fence, please, to protect their fields from marauding warthogs which they are forbidden to hunt under threat of punishment. Tens of millions of Euros and US dollars is disappearing into a maze of bureaucracy leaving little money left for the farmers and their fences. This beautifully shot film examines the delicate balance between agricultural survival in the face of an economic model infatuated with tourism.

Jikoo, A Wish is nominated for the International Jury Prize.