Imagine you’ve left the old story behind. You know, the one that takes for granted that Earth belongs to humans to exploit at will. You’ve started a hike into the unknown. There’s no map and for all you know you could be going in circles. But when you turn around and see the smog hanging over the world you left behind, you realize that even if you’re lost and without a map, you’re still on the right track.
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Crossing Borders
A documentary with Sousou & Maher Cissoko. 22 minutes. (Subtitles available in Swedish, English, French and Spanish).
At a young age Sousou, from a small town in southern Sweden, wanted to learn the West African instrument kora. After having met world renowned kora player Solo Cissoko at a concert, she gets invited to study the instrument with him and his family in Ziguinchor, Senegal. The youngest brother of this famous griot family is Maher Cissoko. The two meet and the rest, as they say, is history.
Crossing Borders is proper love story AND the first film of the Campfire Stories library to actually feature a campfire(!) The film was shot on location at Sousou & Maher’s creative space Jaliya Camp in Abene, Senegal during a retreat featuring yoga, West African dancing and kora music.
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