Lagos, l'île de l'amour

  • Lagos, l'île de l'amour
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2006
Format : Short
Running time : 26 (in minutes)

Three miles from Lagos, in Nigeria, there is an island that caters to men in need of women. 3,000 prostitutes live here. Every day, they set off in flimsy canoes to meet some of the 100 to 120 vessels waiting to drop anchor in the harbor. The women are from Nigeria, but also from Liberia and Benin. The crush of waiting ships assure them an income that allows their families to survive. The prostitutes never remain on board ship, but some follow the men they meet there, and sometimes sailors disembark never to leave them again. Every Sunday, the island is invaded by preachers of virtue who try to get honest Christians to leave this "new Sodom and Gomorrah."

Director : Daniel Grandclément
Writer : Daniel Grandclément
Camera : Daniel Grandclément
Sound : Daniel Grandclément

Production : DGP (Levallois Perret, France)
Sales : France Télévisions Distribution (Paris, France)

Format: HD Cam - 16/9. Colour
Running time: 26 mn
Year of production: 2006

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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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