Completed - FRENCH - Drama, Historical, First film - 90 minutes
RUN is running away…He has just killed his country’s Prime Minister. Therefore he had to take the face and clothes of a madman wandering throughout the town for months. His life returns to him in flashes: his childhood with master Tourou when he dreamt of becoming a rainmaker...
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Philippe LACÔTE Writer(s) : Philippe LACÔTE, Gino VENTRIGLIA, Michel FESSLER, Isabelle FAUVEL Cast : Abdoul Karim KONATE, Isaach DE BANKOLE, Gabourey SIDIBE Producer(s) : Claire GADEA (Banshee Films), Alain PEYROLLAZ (Good Lap Production), Ernest KOUAME (Wassakara productions)
RUN is running away… He has just killed his country’s Prime Minister. Therefore he had to take the face and clothes of a madman wandering throughout the town for months. His life returns to him in flashes: his childhood with master Tourou, when he dreamt of becoming a rainmaker, his incredible adventures with Greedy Gladys and his militia past as a Young Patriot in Ivory Coast's political and military conflict. RUN has not chosen all of these lives. He stumbled into them, escaping from one life to another. This is why he is called RUN. The last political and military conflict in the Ivory Coast cost some 3,000 lives. I've attempted, by using a documentary approach, to testify to a decade of crises that finally exploded. In "Chronicles of war in the Ivory Coast", I filmed my neighborhood, a working-class suburb of Abidjan, from day to day, and interviewed Young Patriots… My intention is to continue observing this territory in crisis, to attempt to cast new light on its politics, this time through fiction by traversing the last 20 years of my country through both its history and geography. A vast story which encompasses its collective history through the emblematic life of one individual: RUN. Today, fiction seems to me best adapted to shed light on the nightmare from which we have barely awoken and are still trying to comprehend.
Country(ies) : FRANCE, IVORY COAST Financing plan : Financial arrangements already acquired: 500,000 USD Writing and development partners: Jerusalem Film Lab (Israel), Amiens Film Festival (France), CNC (France) Production partner: Wassakara Productions (Ivory Coast) Coproducer: Good Lap (France) Development agency: Initiative Films (France) Broadcast: Canal + Afrique Start of shooting : January 2013
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Festival de Cannes 2014 Un Certain Regard