VIVRE RICHE
by Joel Akafou
Femmes, entièrement femmes
SUMMARY
“Rolex the Portuguese” has risked the “adventure” in neighbouring Burkina Faso, without success. Here he is back in Abidjan, to make lots of money. With his companions, aged between 15 and 25, he makes a living from casual trade, in particular from that of “grazing”, i.e. online scams, taking advantage of the monetary largesse of white women in search of love or sensations, whose money they then blow in the ‘maquis’ (bars) or nightclubs. This unvarnished immersion in cinéma direct does not describe “a profession” as Rolex tells the filmmaker, Joël Akafou, but rather a “phenomenon”, inspired by Doug Saka (who died in 2006). He was a musician with a meteoric career who promoted a hedonistic and casual model, and invented the “coupé-décalé” style of dance music, who became famous all over Western Africa and even in Europe. The protagonists of Vivre riche belong to a changing youth, disoriented by years of civil war, who, to the great displeasure of the previous generation (that it continues nonetheless to fear and respect), essentially intend “to cash in the colonial debt”.
Documentary, 53', 2017, Burkina Faso / France / Belgium
Author, Director : Joel Akafou
Photography : Dieudo Hamadi
Sound : Joël Akafou
Editing : Magali Lefay
Mixing : Ivan Broussegoutte
Color correction : Benjamin Dontaine
Coproduction : TVFIL78, Lyon Capitale TV, RTBF, Les Films du Djabadjah / Burkina Faso, Les Films de la Passerelle / Belgium
Sound : Joël Akafou
Editing : Magali Lefay
Mixing : Ivan Broussegoutte
Color correction : Benjamin Dontaine
Coproduction : TVFIL78, Lyon Capitale TV, RTBF, Les Films du Djabadjah / Burkina Faso, Les Films de la Passerelle / Belgium
With the participation of Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée, the Procirep – Société des Producteurs & Angoa, department of Charente-Maritime & the Region New Aquitaine, Wallonie Image Production & Africadoc - collections "Lumières d'Afrique"
AWARDS
- Sesterce d'Or George, Meilleur moyen-métrage de la compétition internationale, Visions du Réel, 2017
- Award Corsica.Doc / Via Stella, New Talents Competition, Festival Corsica.Doc, 2017
- Award to the best documentary film of the Festival International du Film de Bruxelles, 2017
NEXT BROADCASTS
- Festival Résistances, Foix - France, July 5th to 13th, 2019
- Cinéma ABC, Toulouse - France, July 4th, 2019
FESTIVAL NOMINATIONS
- World Premiere, Compétition Internationale Moyen-Métrage, Festival Visions du Réel, Nyon - Switzerland - 2017
- Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique, Lausanne - Switzerland, 2017
- Etats généraux du film documentaire, Lussas - France, 2017
- Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique des Pays d'Apt, France, 2017
- Festival International du Film, Bruxelles - Belgium, 2017
- Escales Documentaires de Libreville - Gabon, 2017
- Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme, Paris - France, 2017
- Festival International du Film Documentaire de Saint-Louis - Senegal, 2017
- Festival Ciné Droit Libre, Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso, 2017
- Festival Black Movie, Geneva - Switzerland, 2018
- Festival DocPoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, 2018
- Festival Filmer le travail, International Competition, Cinéma TAP Castille - Poitiers - France, 2018
- Festival La première fois, Marseille- France, 2018
- Rendez-vous des docs, L'Ellipse Theatre, Ajaccio - France, 2018
- Rencontres internationales du moyen-métrage de Brive, 2018
- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, International , Toronto - Canada, 2018
- Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique de Tarifa, Tarifa - Spain and Tanger - Morocco, 2018
- Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade - Serbia, 2018
- Doc Cévennes, International Documentary Festival, Lasalle en Cévennes - France, 2018
- Festival Afrique en docs, Lille - France, 2018
- Festival Etonnants Voyageurs, Saint-Malo and Rennes - France, 2018
- Festival Baatou Africa, Le Reflet Médicis Theatre, Paris - France, 2018
- Afrika Film Festival, Cologne - Germany, September 13th to 23rd, 2018
- Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Guadeloupe, October 12th to 19th, 2018
- Festival America Molo Man, Saint-Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana, Octobrer 13th to 19th, 2018
- Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle, France, November 6th to 11th, 2018
- Festival Etoiles de la Scam, Forum des Images, Paris - France, November 9th to 11th, 2018
- Trophées Francophones du Cinéma, Saint-Louis of Senegal, December 8th, 2018
- New African Film Festival, Silver Spring - Maryland, USA, March 15th, 2019
- Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, Bristol - United Kingdom, March 30th, 2019
- Espelhos d'Africa, Salvador - Brasil, from May 24th to June 1st, 2019
OTHER BROADCASTS
- Lyon Capitale TV, October 2017
- Tënk.fr, December 2017 - January 2018
- Médiapart.fr, December 2017 - January 2018
- Forum des Images, silver screen documentary evening, Paris - France 2018
- Film Library of Corsica, Porto-Vecchio - France, January 18th, 2018
- Library of Mériadeck, Bordeaux - France, January 30th, 2018
- Cinéma Le Méliès, Pau - France, January 31st, 2018
- L'Hybride Theatre, Lille - France, January 2019
- Les Ateliers Varan, Paris, June 2sd, 2019
