"A gripping and seductive film that sharply veers off the beaten track."
Fabien Lemercier - Cineuropa
TFL Awards
TFL Audience Design Fund 2019 (€ 40.000)
consultancy with TFL experts Greta Nordio and Riema Reybrouck - online, July 2020
with the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union
festivals & awards
Orizzonti, Venice Film Festival 2020
synopsis
A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
info
original title
La Nuit des Rois
genre
Drama
country
France, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada, Senegal
running time
93’
produced by
Banshee Films – France
in co-production with
Wassakara Productions – Côte d’Ivoire
Peripheria – Canada
Yennenga Production – Sénégal
directed by
Philippe Lacôte
written by
Philippe Lacôte, Delphine Jaquet
sales
Memento Films International
