{"id":2365,"date":"2013-12-20T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2014.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2013-12-27T23:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T07:56:39","slug":"la-pirogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/la-pirogue\/","title":{"rendered":"LA PIROGUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the African Immigrant Experience<\/p>\n<p><i>La Pirogue<\/i> tells the story of Baye Laye, a retired boat captain who reluctantly agrees to take 29 men (and one stowaway woman) on a perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain in a <i>pirogue<\/i>, a wooden fishing boat. While united in their desperation to seek a better life for themselves and their families in Europe, the passengers hail from different ethnic and religious backgrounds and, in a few cases, different countries. Their journey is far from smooth. Dedicated to the thousands of Africans who have lost their lives trying to cross to Europe in the last decade, <i>La Pirogue<\/i> tackles the issue of illegal immigration in a clear-eyed and compassionate manner. At the same time, director Moussa Tour\u00e9 has created a timeless, mythically haunting odyssey. Winner of the Golden Tanit at the 2012 Carthage Film Festival and the Bronze Stallion at FESPACO 2013. Moussa Tour\u00e9\u2019s delightful road-trip film <i>TGV<\/i> opened the 12th CFAF in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In Wolof and French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by Willamette University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pirogue trailer Eng subtitled 720p\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYPBGPFYR18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the African Immigrant Experience La Pirogue tells the story of Baye Laye, a retired boat captain who reluctantly agrees to take 29 men (and one stowaway woman) on a perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain in a pirogue, a wooden fishing boat. While united in their desperation to seek a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-germany","category-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}