Guinea / 2001 / 78mins / Drama / French, Fulani and Susu

Mathias, a young French-Guinean man, travels back to Guinea to find his biological father but is mugged on arrival. His friendship with an endearing tramp and the discovery that his father is an old, wasted alcoholic, frame this shimmering portrait of a rootless generation. The town and its inhabitants are the object of a meeting; that of a silent but determined man and those who host him, a troubled milieu, a kingdom of wheeling and dealing and nightclubs.

Gahité Fofana

Gahité Fofana was born in 1965 in France to a Guinean father and a French mother. He studied literature and film in Paris, and worked as a film editor making his first short, Tanun in 1994 which earned him the Black Movies award in Geneva in 1995. In 1995 he made two films for the African Artists and AIDS project: A Word, a Face and Temedy, which won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. His highly acclaimed film I.T. - Immatriculation Temporaire (Temporary Registration) also received a Special Jury Prize at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in 2001. Fofana’s other films include Early in the Morning (2006) and The Moon Fell (2015). Learn More