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Kanaval
- Yzanakio (CA)
- French
- Aide Financière Sélective (AFS)
ALIEF
Brett Walker
T +33 6 61 79 64 37
brett@alief .co .uk
Rayan Dieudonné, Penande Estime, Jean Jean, Martin Dubreuil, Hana Sofia Lopes
Sound editor : Michel Schillings
Sound engineer : Arnaud Mellet
Picture editor : Marc Recchia
Colour grading : Raoul Nadalet
VFX supervisor : Gil Pinheiro
It is 1975, during the carnival celebrations of a small Haitian porttown nine-year-old Rico delights in the festivities but returns home to find his schoolteacher mother under attack . They flee together to rural Quebec where they are taken in by a kindly couple . Struggling to adjust to Canada, with its snow, racist villagers, and school bullies, Rico begins to slip into an imaginary world, inventing a half-animal, half-human friend from Haitian myth who becomes his guiding light .
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