L’Arbre sans fruit

Spoken: French. Subtitles: English.

(The Fruitless Tree) Married with no kids, the director Aïcha and her husband are facing a non-standard situation in their society. But in Niger as everywhere else in the world, there are infertility problems. Relying on her personal experience, Aïcha Macky explores with sensitivity this taboo, questions women’s status within Nigerian society and in a wider perspective femininity and motherhood issues.

24/4/2018, 20.00, Pangaea, A. Vesaliusstraat 34, 3000 Leuven