January 2006, Caracas welcomes the 7th edition of the World Social Forum, place of all dreams…and destination of the new “social tourism”. Popular Venezuelan movements remind international witnesses that revolution is on the move, but that it is also in danger.
Thomas Sankara, the honest man
Robin Shuffield
France – 2006 – 52 min – VO (French)
Come to power at the age of 34, as a military captain, a Colt in his belt and book of Marx in hand, Thomas Sankara decides to sweep his country clean. Through image files, testimony from close witness, this film traces the portrait of a man called the “African Che”.
