Canada / Luxembourg,
2023, 112 min
Plots(1)
It is 1975, during the carnival celebrations of a small Haitian port town nine-year-old Rico delights in the festivities but returns home to find his schoolteacher mother under attack. They flee together to rural Quebec where they are taken in by a kindly couple. Struggling to adjust to Canada, with its snow, racist villagers, and school bullies, Rico begins to slip into an imaginary world, inventing a half-animal, half-human friend from Haitian myth who becomes his guiding light. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Martin Dubreuil
Canada
Best movies:
10 1/2 (2010)
Everything Is Fine (2008)
Les 3 P'tits Cochons (2007)
Claire Jacques
Best movies:
Whitewash (2013)
The Expatriate (2012)
Hana Sofia Lopes
Best movies:
The Ministry of Time (2015) (series)
Amour Fou (2014)