neba

Neba draws the portrait of Mamadou Touré, who comes back home, looking for his roots. This documentary concerns on this young man from a rural town in Mali living in Paris suburb as a painter : Mali and France, both home ports between which ones his own identity is pulled about.
NéBa, ‘my mother’ in language Bambara, is a story of family, a mother who wants to revise its son and a son who wants to bury his father. A story of immigration which transforms into tragedy by the force of laws.
It is also the history of a friendship between an alien who returns to the country after eight unsatisfied quest years in Europe and a French who dreams Africa as the paradise lost. A film, a trip on traces of the journey which had behaved Mamadou Touré to cross a part of Africa and Europe to arrive until to France.

Mangoro is a project created by Eric Reiffsteck and Mamadou Toure. After the aventure of Neba, they decided to take action and develop an efficient food drying system to produce dried mangos in the souther area of Mali, West Africa. With advantages of long shelf-life, ease of transportation and low costs, dried mangos can provide a viable venture for many farmers.
With the partnership of 401 films LLC in New York, a documentary and a weblog are set up to follow the developement of this aventure.