5/29/2025–|Last update: 08:59 (Mecca time)
A documentary entitled “A Golden Life” revealed serious violations that children are exposed to gold mines in Burkina Faso, where they are forced to work hard, and enter deep wells of up to 100 meters inside the Earth.
The documentary directed by the cinematographer Boubaker Sangari will be shown on Friday, May 30, and highlights the tragic reality experienced by adolescents working in the Burkina Faso Gold, as childhood turns into a secondary victim in a feverish race towards mineral wealth.
The film revolves around the 16 -year -old boy, who is forced daily to go down in a 100 -meter deep well, leading to narrow tunnels overwhelmed by mud.
Under the continuous pits and long hours of work, his body deteriorates, while he finds comfort except in a worn cottage of straw and plastic, and with time, he resorted to medications to relieve accumulated pain.
In a cinematic language focused on the snapshots and the living scenes, the documentary links the physical attrition of workers and the deep scars that are left behind by drilling work on the ground.
Despite the cruelty of circumstances, the film shows the human side in the friendship that arises between workers, as these ties become a psychological refuge that protects them from the cruelty of reality.
Childhood kill
The documentary reveals the features of childhood, which is buried behind the muscular effort, through touching scenes for children working in exploration, and they wish simple things such as buying new jeans.
A golden life movie seeks to present a living testimony on a reality in which childhood innocence violates forced work, under the weight of greed, exploitation and greed.
Burkina Faso is classified as one of the gold -rich West African countries, and people work in it with individual and primitive means that often causes ground collapses that left the dead and wounded from time to time.
Although the head of the Transitional Military Council, which has governed the country since 2022, has pledged to organize work in gold mines, and announced the ability of the state to manage its resources away from foreign companies, the problems of terrorism and the armed rebellion still occupy the government from devotion to organizing gold minerals spread in separate parts of the country.
