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Section: Panorama
Small Country: An African Childhood (2020)
France, Belgium |
2020 |
111 min.
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid; he’s happy, carefree and has adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
| Country | France, Belgium |
|---|---|
| Year | 2020 |
| Duration | 111 min |
| Rating | 15 |
| Language | French |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Eric Barbier |
| Screenplay | Gaël Faye, Eric Barbier |
| Director of Photography | Antoine Sanier |
| Music | Renaud Barbier |
| Contact | The Festival Agency |
Biography
A French screenwriter and director. He graduated from the IDHEC film school in Paris with the feature melodrama Le Brasier (1991), later directing the thriller The Serpent (Le Serpent, 2006) and the biographical drama Promise at Dawn (La Promesse de l'aube, 2017).
Politics, Violence, War, Death, Childhood, Discrimination, Crime