Canada / Luxembourg,
2023, 112 min
Plots(1)
It is 1975, during the carnival celebrations of a small Haitian port town 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. (Zlín Film Festival)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Toronto International Film Festival
- 2023 - Henri Pardo (Best Canadian Feature Film - Honorable Mention)
- 2023 - Henri Pardo (Amplify Voices Award - Best BIPOC Canadian Feature)