Emitaï

A Diola village in Senegal faces a colonial decree from French authorities: surrender the entire rice harvest for the army's needs in World War II. Elders invoke the ancestors and the rain god Emitaï, while women hide the grain and men retreat to the forests. The film meticulously charts the collision of traditional belief, colonial violence, and nascent resistance, where ritual and silence themselves become acts of defiance against an implacable force.