Burkina Faso and France / 2021 / 84mins / Documentary / French, Spanish, Moore and Lyele

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a revolution. But after the assassination of Burkinabè President Thomas Sankara in 1987, the liquidation of the revolution by Blaise Compaoré, and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return, to build themselves, to exist? The narrative of this utopia of Red Africa and the epic memories of these children are mixed with archival images, sometimes reddened by the sand, the heat, and the wind, sometimes faded, almost disappearing, thus giving us a glimpse into the reminiscences of their revolutionary youth.

Géraldine Berger

After studying economics and Russian, with beginnings in journalism and many years spent in film production, Géraldine Berger followed the Ateliers Varan (initiated by Jean Rouch) and directed there her first documentary film, Première Marque, on a micro-credit experience in the Paris suburbs. Since 2008, she has been writing and developing documentary film projects, all of which have a certain connection to utopia or revolution, whether political or scientific, or whether they take place in history, in Paris or Burkina Faso, or just in her own family. Learn More