The gangster underworld of an African desert city is fascinatingly probed in native filmmaker Aicha Macky's unfussy documentary. In “Zinder,” Nigerien director Aicha Macky announces up front her ...

Niamey (Niger) (AFP) – From infertility struggles to the shape of a woman's body, award-winning filmmaker Aicha Macky tackles issues considered taboo in Niger's conservative society. Even just being a ...

Cineuropa: Why is it important for you to focus in your films on topics related to your origins? Aïcha Macky: Why look far when right next to me there are veils that deserve to be lifted, evils that ...

Aïcha Macky is a Nigerien filmmaker as well as a sociologist. She is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed documentary The Fruitless Tree. Description above from the Wikipedia article ...

There is certainly some pressure to procreate in Western societies, but in some countries, it’s not even a question of choice. Married but childless, director Aicha Macky’s circumstance is judged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Zinder," Nigerien director Aicha Macky announces up front her relationship to the desert city that lends her film its name. "I ...

From infertility struggles to the shape of a woman's body, award-winning filmmaker Aicha Macky tackles issues considered taboo in Niger's conservative society.

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