Zan Boko (Homeland)
PLS DVD0638
Zan boko means the "place where the placenta is buried" and symbolizes the continuity between past and the present in African village societies. The film tells the story of a village swallowed up by one of Africa's sprawling cities. Through this commonplace event, the film reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized, commodity economy and of an oral culture into a mass media culture. It's the story of two men, from different worlds but sharing a common integrity. Tinga is a peasant farmer whose ancestral land is confiscated by a wealthy businessman. Yabre is a journalist whose uncompromising television expose of Tinga's victimization is censored by a corrupt government. 1988/In More with English subtitle/ 94 min
Official Story
PLS DVD0634
In the mid-7-s, Argentina's military dictatorship carried out a brutal campaign of torture and murder against thousands of its own citizens. The Official Story follows Alicia (Norma Aleandro), the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman (Hector Alterio), who begins to unravel the horrifying legacy of her country's past when she looks into the background of her own daughter, adopted at birth, to find that she may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos" (the disappeared ones). The Official Story is the true account of a woman faced with the hardest choice she could make - to live a lie or risk tearing apart her own life and family. Running time: 104 minutes approx.