In 1992, 11-year-old Gaby lives in Burundi with her younger sister Ana, French entrepreneurial father, and Rwandan exile mother. Playing mangoes with friends, laughing, doing silly things and running the streets of Bujumbura is a happy childhood. Civil war broke out in 1993. The recklessness is gone…
an autobiographical book
Little Pays is Gaël Faye’s first novel. With a pen dipped in the ink of his precise and poetic flow, the rapper and writer chronicles the Burundi of his childhood, the war-swept paradise of the lost and the Holocaust of the Tutsi in neighboring Rwanda. The book, which was awarded the Goncourt des Lycéens award in 2016, entered the bestseller list.
War at the height of a child
Éric Barbier drew a playful and poignant ode of innocence through the eyes of the young heroine Gaby, who saw her parents’ separation, a French father and a Rwandan mother, coincided with the chaos of the civil war. “ The family is the sounding board of great history. Gaby doesn’t understand all the problems and tragedies that revolve around her. “, sums up the director.
Jean-Paul Rouve in the Small Country
Jeff Tuche’s translator agreed without hesitation to be the father of Gaby, a hipster-inspired expat with a colonial background who fell in love with Africa. The actor has read a lot about Rwanda and says his stay there was a hallmark: ” We were shooting with the actors and technicians that the film reflected their experiences. »
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ISABEL MAGNIER
Source: Programme Television
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