OPENING FILM : HOPE

By Boris Lojkine
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS

Deep in the Sahara desert, on his way to Europe, Léonard, a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope, a Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where you have to stay with your own people to stay safe, these two try to find their way and love each other.

“The power of Hope lies in its unflinching portrayal of the reality of the tragic conditions of the exile of Africans travelling through the Sahara to reach Europe. The film tells this story through an incredible tale of love, which allows this oft ignored situation to reach us. “As long as there is another person, wrote Serge Daney, there is hope for filming. Hope is the story of this hope.” - Charles Tesson - Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival.