Jom, The Story of a People
New York African Film Festival 2022
May 12 - 17, 2022
Samb-Makharam uses the griot as the nexus of multiple stories drawing from Senegal’s collective memory. To inspire striking workers, the griot tells of two legends who both became heroes to their people.
Senegalese filmmaker Ababacar Samb-Makharam said, “‘Jom’ is a Wolof word which has no equivalent in English or French. ‘Jom’ means courage, dignity, respect… It is the origin of all virtues.” To celebrate the concept, Samb-Makharam uses the griot (oral historian) as the nexus of multiple stories drawing from Senegal’s collective memory. To inspire striking workers, the griot tells of a legendary prince, Dieri Dior Ndella, who sacrificed his life during colonialism, and Koura Thiaw, an entertainer who took up the cause of oppressed domestics in the 1940s, with both becoming heroes to their people.
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