Un Togolais sur la Lune

The death of a Burkinabé family’s patriarch and the division of his estate unearths conflict between his heirs and larger questions about inheritance, belonging and the communal customs of West Africa versus Westernized courts.

In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 years old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. He will have to confront his fears and desires.

At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girlfriend with the pain and loneliness.

A filmmaker wanders with his camera through a large empty house where he spent a happy childhood. Aged 14, he was stopped in his tracks by the terrifying image of his father’s corpse, covered in a white shroud. Thirty years on, he makes his way back to the original scene.