(01): Halima's Choice
Title: Zabin Halima – (Halima’s Choice) Language: Hausa Writer/Director: Korede Azeez Production: Cinema Kpatakpata Runtime: 24 Mins. #UNESCO #Netflix #AfricanFolktales Korede Azeez's Halima's Choice is one of the episodes in the Netflix series African Folktales. It is a story about a young girl named Halima who challenges her parents' desire for an arranged marriage to a man old enough to be her father. Instead, she chooses Umar, a total stranger passionate about artificial intelligence. The opening scene presents two contrasting places: a modern sci-fi city, "Napata," and a conservative village, "Gidanpula." The fictitious people of Gidanpula are Fulani Muslims, in complete deterrence with modernity and what comes with it, including artificial intelligence, and instead clung to their religion and culture. The two places Napata & Gidanpula not only contrast in progress but also in their intolerance towards one another. Notwithstanding, the curiou...