'Return to Gorée' at Baajaa Gaajaa 2011

Swiss film maker Pierre-Yves Borgeaud presents 'Return to Gorée', a French film with English sub-titles on African singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey at Baajaa Gaajaa 2011 [dated February 2011]

Swiss film maker Pierre-Yves Borgeaud presents 'Return to Gorée', a French film with English sub-titles on African singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey at Baajaa Gaajaa 2011 Return to Gorée Date: Sunday 6 February 2011 Time 2:00 pm Venue: Ishanya, Pune As part of Baajaa Gaajaa 2011.

Return to Gorée Synopsis
The musical road movie, Return to Gorée, tells of African singer Youssou N'Dour's epic journey following the trail left by slaves and by the jazz music they invented. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Goree, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his mission by the pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N'Dour travels across the United States of America and Europe. Accompanied by some of the world's most exceptional musicians, they meet people and well known figures, and create, through concerts, encounters and debates, music which transcends cultural division.From Atlanta to New Orleans, from New York to Dakar through Luxemburg the songs are transformed, immersed in jazz and gospel. But the day of their return to Africa is fast approaching and much remains to be done to be ready for the final concert...

Pierre-Yves Borgeaud 
Pierre-Yves Borgeaud is a film maker, a video artist who has also worked as an independent journalist writing about music and has been a percussionist in jazz and funk bands.

After studying Film, Video & Broadcasting in New York University in 1996, Pierre started working on documentaries and music videos. In 1998, he becomes one of the Swiss pioneers of VJing,[1] presenting live performances with musicians like Pierre Audétat, Christy Doran, Nils Petter Molvaer or Don Li.

Director, producer, and interdisciplinary artist, Borgeaud founded Momentum Production in 1999. In 2000, he received the price "Young artist" in video awarded by a council of the arts in Switzerland. In 2003, his first long feature iXieme: diary of a prisoner was awarded with the Golden Leopard in Video at the Locarno International Film Festival.[2] In 2004, the short film Interface was nominated for the best Swiss short film. In 2008, his film Return to Goree, with Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour, was released and awarded worldwide including Best Documentary at the 16th Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. In 2010/2011, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud is working on a new long feature documentary with Brazilian singer, composer and icon Gilberto Gil.