From the director whose first film God's Gift (Wênd Kûuni), was a critical and popular hit at the 1983 SFIFF, comes this beautifully crafted, hard-hitting new work. Zan Boko is "a surprisingly direct attack on a government policy of forced urbanization of villagers and media censorship in Burkina Faso. Conceived many years ago by director-scripter Gaston Kaboré, and financed by the very institutions (like the Ministry of Information) it cuffs, Zan Boko remains a forceful critique of customs in a very real, concretely named African country. Tinga and his wife Nopoko move from their village to a concrete blockhouse in Ouagadougou, the capital city, overlooking the backyard of a rich couple. The neighbors want Tinga to sell them his land in the country (now the city's outskirts) so they can build a swimming pool. He steadfastly refuses, but they outmaneuver him with political contacts. A reporter who has been following the story invites Tinga to join a live TV debate on forced urbanization." (Deborah Young, Variety) As Kaboré notes, "Zan Boko can be summed up in the words 'rootedness' and 'identity.' So it's the spatial and cultural clash between two worlds, city and country, which takes place to the detriment of the latter. The film looks sensitively and critically at this transformation."