Binta and the Great Idea

• Zeynabou Diallo: Binta
• Agnile Sambou: Bintas father
• Aminata Sane: Soda

Binta y la Gran Idea ( Binta and the Great Idea dt ) is a gambling Senegal in the southwest short film, which was financed by the Spanish Department of UNICEF. He is the last of five short films made ​​by different directors, and together form the film En el mundo a cada rato.

Action

Binta as narrator first introduces us to her parents. Her father is the fisherman Sabu Diatta, his friend Souleyman says it resistant from the world of Tubabs with material possessions, their ingenuity and their strength of arms before. With Tubabs especially the fair-skinned people in Europe are meant. Her mother is the field worker Aminata Kamara, who grows rice in a cooperative with other women. You live in a place near Bignona in southern Senegal.

It is shown during a lesson Binta. The teacher gives a lecture about the fact that you have to respect each with its differences. As an example of short stature Binta is headed. When they then voluntarily reporting for board wipe, the teacher agreed with the class that no one will laugh. Although all agree, they snort off and can hardly keep from laughing, as will be seen that Binta only the lower part of the panel, where nothing is written, it achieved.

Binta sees it as a privilege to go to school and to be able to learn something. Her cousin Soda could not. This is a load of wood, which she wears on her head, on the schoolyard fence and looks longingly to the students while dancing and playing in the pause. Just on the subject exerts a teacher a play with the students. If Binta is great, she would like to be a politician, the word for it she knows apparently not yet.

As Binta comes home, discuss their parents about an idea of her father. Binta is to help him write letters, so he dictated to her, but writes too slow. Fatu, sodas mother picks for their livelihood fruits, which they sold to traders from the city, but they relentlessly cheating with the payment. Binta commented that her aunt had never attended school. During rehearsals for the play, the teacher discussed with the cast about the possibilities of the imagination. A boy wants a firework.

In the course of the story, there are always idyllic underlaid with regional music scenes of everyday life, such as a school class full of cheerful, painting children.

Bintas father brings his letter first to a lower authority, while someone else Fatus family rice unrecognized past brings, as Fatu is again confined to bed. Sabu Diatta is further sent his letter to the next higher authority after Bignona and from there to the Governor to Ziguinchor. Every time another piece of the letter will be read. It turns out that Bintas father wants to adopt a Tubab - child, so that it can develop, learn what is important in life, and he thus its part contributes to the progress of mankind.

In the performance of the play in place also soda and their father are present. Scowling she looks to the spectacle, the closing argument, she gets up and confronts bashfully her father with a desire also to be allowed to go to school. All present now a talk with her father and want to get him not to deny her the desire to further education.

The teacher, together with his disciples before that the palm trees were fireworks, the camera wanders up the tribes and the crowns of the trees symbolize the explosion of the rocket.

Awards and prizes

At the Academy Awards in 2007, the film was nominated for Best Short Film in the category.