The journey from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast is long and dangerous. On the journey organized by smugglers, Hope, a young Nigerian woman, meets Léonard, a Cameroonian refugee. This film won the Critics' Prize at Cannes. Although she is rejected by him, she sticks to his heels - because Hope senses that without Léonard she has no chance of surviving the voyage. Director Boris Lojkine's impressive leading actors are non-professionals he met in the refugee camps of northern Morocco. "I show a universe where everything can be bought. It's bloody, it's all traffic, business. It was important for me to bring out humanity, which has a form of unique beauty because it appears in this dehumanized universe." Boris Lojkine)
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1h 33min
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On their flight from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast, two people, despite or because of the omnipresent danger, find each other.
The journey from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast is long and dangerous. On the journey organized by smugglers, Hope, a young Nigerian woman, meets Léonard, a Cameroonian refugee. This film won the Critics' Prize at Cannes.
Although she is rejected by him, she sticks to his heels - because Hope senses that without Léonard she has no chance of surviving the voyage. Director Boris Lojkine's impressive leading actors are non-professionals he met in the refugee camps of northern Morocco.
"I show a universe where everything can be bought. It's bloody, it's all traffic, business. It was important for me to bring out humanity, which has a form of unique beauty because it appears in this dehumanized universe." Boris Lojkine)