28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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N’Doep
N’Doep
N’Doep
N’Doep

N’Doep

director: Michel Meignant
original title: Le N’Doep
country: France
year: 1967
running time: 40 min.

synopsis

This ethnographic documentary applies the perspectives of Western and traditional medicine to the exploration of the African N'Doep ritual practiced in Senegal for the purpose of healing mental disorders. Although the guide in the film is a French psychiatrist, the overall mood is decolonial as it acknowledges the importance of the local healing traditions and the need to connect Western medicine with indigenous religious rituals.

more about film

director: Michel Meignant
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms