{"id":2378,"date":"2013-12-20T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2014.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2013-12-27T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T07:34:08","slug":"moizaphira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/moizaphira\/","title":{"rendered":"MOI ZAPHIRA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women Filmmakers Week with Film Director Apolline Traor\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Zaphira is a young widow who lives with her seven-year-old daughter in a rigid, tradition-bound village. She\u2019s unhappy with her environment and desires a better life for her daughter. One day, she comes across a fashion magazine filled with pictures of slender, lovely young women. She has a revelation: Her daughter will be a model, just like them. In a village where this profession is unknown, Zaphira will do anything it takes to make her dream come true, whatever the odds. In a powerful performance by Mariam Ou\u00e9draogo (which won her the Best Actress award at FESPACO 2013), we see just how far this single-minded woman is willing to go. In Djoula and French with English subtitles. \\<\/p>\n<p>We are honored to have film director Apolline Traor\u00e9 (whose film\u00a0<i>Under the Moonlight<\/i>\u00a0showed at the 18th CFAF in 2008) to present and answer questions about her film on March 1, the festival\u2019s closing night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by EAI Information Systems<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women Filmmakers Week with Film Director Apolline Traor\u00e9 Zaphira is a young widow who lives with her seven-year-old daughter in a rigid, tradition-bound village. She\u2019s unhappy with her environment and desires a better life for her daughter. One day, she comes across a fashion magazine filled with pictures of slender, lovely young women. She has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burkina-faso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","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=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}