Ivory Coast and France / 2008 / 106mins / Drama / French and English

Cab driver, Otho, and drug dealer, Shad, share dreams of returning to their homeland, Ivory Coast, as triumphant benefactors. A police raid separates their fates, leaving one to find success in Europe, while the other suffers the disappointment of deportation and a dream deferred.

Eliane De Latour

Eliane de Latour, research director at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), anthropologist and film director began making documentary films after completing her thesis, alternating shoots in France and Africa while continuing to write. She then turned to fiction and also writing a novel, Malik Ambar. Through cinema, photography, scientific or literary writing hers is an insider’s look at the closed worlds of those who are forced behind a physical or social barrier. Whether dealing with the elderly community of Cévennes, harems in Nigeria, the prison institution, ghettos in the Ivory Coast, underground migrants, young football players, black slaves in India in the 17th century, minors in prison in Morocco or young sex-workers displaced by war in the Ivory Coast, her research subjects are centered around social reclusion and its corollary: major or minor achievements of freedom. Learn More