Babylon

  • Babylon [dir. Franco Rosso]
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2020
Format : Feature
Running time : 95 (in minutes)

Cameroonian singer Aswad Brinsley Forde, the young Rasta Blue is lost in an English society that does not understand him, any more than it has managed to assimilate its wave of Jamaican immigration since the island's decolonisation in 1962. Unemployment, racist police, xenophobic neighbours and bosses. A permanent oppression that Blue evacuates at the microphone of her sound-system, a gigantic home-made sound system, with the secret dream of becoming the most popular "sound" in London. But on his way there is a major obstacle in his path: the King of this stage, the dreaded Jah Shaka (in his own role)...

Film by Franco Rosso, with Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Trevor Laird

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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