VIVRE RICHE
by Joel Akafou
Femmes, entièrement femmes
SYNOPSIS
"Rolex the Portuguese" tried his luck in neighboring Burkina Faso, without success. Now he is back in Abidjan, earning a lot of money. With his companions, aged between 15 and 25, he lives off the informal economy, in particular "grazing", i.e. scams on the Internet, taking advantage of the financial largesse of white women in search of love or sensations. Together, they then spend the money in the maquis (drinking establishments) or clubs. The protagonists of Vivre Riche belong to a mutating youth, disoriented by the years of civil war, which intends no more nor less "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
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
