TALIBE - THE LEAST FAVORED CHILDREN OF SENEGAL
documentary
Senegal, 2010/11
Blu-Ray, 57 Min. (OmeU)
by Daniela Kon
followed by a discussion
7. December
Filmhauskino
7.30 p.m.
The important tradition of Islamic education in Senegal has been left to develop in disturbingly perverted ways. Fifty thousand Koranic students called Talibes, young boys between four and fifteen-years-old, are subjected to exploitation in conditions akin to slavery. They are forced to beg on the streets by their Koranic schoolteachers and suffer severe physical abuse and neglect. Following the staff of local grassroots NGO La Masion de la Gare during their daily efforts to find solutions for the terrible conditions the boys are subjected to, the documentary sets out on a poetic exploration of the nature and circumstances that breed and prolong the suffering of these children.