DP75: Tartina City

DP75 Tartina City is a 2007 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo, now at his second feature film. The film has won the Innovation Award at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival. While the country where the action is set remains unnamed, the context is that of Chadian history in the 1980s and 1990s. The names title is taken from the tartina, a mixture of bread and sheeps bowels served to the prisoners.

The film was reviewed favourably by Variety, which while noting the rocky story progression and a minimalist tech package of the feature, judged it overcame these difficulties by placing in the center the figure of Colonel Koulbou, whose interpretation is commended. The reviewer concludes saying that Coelo displays a commitment to social concerns that flags him as a filmmaker to watch from the region. Jeune Afrique also reviews positively the film, a very harsh film, without any concessions to aestheticisms ... Its very crude images have at times shocked the spectators, but the authour avoids falling in sensationalism to describe the martyrdom of a freedom of opinion prisoner.

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