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RABI

Developing Stories Series I

60 minutes
Grades 3-Adult

A film by Gaston Kabore for Cinecom Productions/BBC

A beautiful modern day fable using traditional African story-
telling techniques about a young boy in Burkina Faso. Nine-
year-old Rabi acquires a pet tortoise after his father falls
off his bicycle swerving to avoid it. The boy's fascination
with nature manifests itself in turning his pet on its back
and watching it struggle. The boy is heartbroken when the
tortoise is taken away from him, but his grandfather helps him
find his own tortoise which speaks to him so eloquently about
his abuse that the boy eventually sets it free.

Awards: First Prize for Young People's Films, Okomedia; Bronze
Award, Carthage Film Festival

• "Beautiful modern African parable about our dislocated
  relationship with the natural world." The (Manchester)
  Guardian
  

• "A keen observation of a subsistence economy while
  discreetly raising wider issues." The (London) Times
  

ISBN: 1-56029-538-4

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