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  • Retour (Le) [dir. Kouraogo]
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2020
Format : Short
Running time : 17 (in minutes)

Salimata, a young Senegalese student in Morocco, learns that her sick mother is dying. She has no money to buy a plane ticket, so she hitchhikes on the road to find her.

Salimata, 23, a fourth-year student in Morocco, learned that her sick mother was dying. Having no money to pay for a plane ticket, she decides to take the road to go to her country to spend these last moments with her mother. And this journey will be marked by her meeting Khalid who will take her aboard his van.

starring
Tracy Meud'z, Khalid Bougazzoul

a film by Isabelle Christiane KOURAOGO

MOROCCO / Ivory Coast, 2020, Fiction, 17'

School film (ESAV Marrakech)

Title: LE RETOUR (Back to Home)
Type: Fiction
Country of production: Morocco
Year: 2020
Duration: 17 min
School: ESAV Marrakech (Morocco)

Producer
Vincent MELILLI

DIRECTOR
Isabelle C. Kouraogo (Ivory Coast)

PRODUCTION
Ecole supérieure des arts visuels de Marrakech (ESAV)


FESTIVALS
* Competition /// 4th Dakar Court Short Film Festival (Dakar, Senegal, 2021)
* Selection (La Relève étudiante #2 - Focus Africa2020) /// Poitiers Film Festival (Poitiers, France, 2021) - https://poitiersfilmfestival.com/cinema/le-retour/
* Special Screenings (Programa de Cortos "À Première Vue") /// 36th La Mostra de València (Valence, Espagne 2021) - https://lamostradevalencia.com/en/peliculas/programa-de-cortos-a-premiere-vue/

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