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NIGHT OF THE KINGS

LA NUIT DE ROIS

By Philippe LACÔTE

NEW HORIZONS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL / NEW HORIZONS ASSOCIATION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, POLAND / FEST

Drama - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto IFF 2020
Amplify Voices Award
Rotterdam IFF (online) 2021
Limelight Youth Jury award
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, IVORY COAST, CANADA, SENEGAL
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Philippe LACÔTE
    • Writer(s)
    • Philippe LACÔTE
    • Producer(s)
    • Samuel TEISSEIRE (Banshee Films), Delphine JAQUET (Wassakara Productions), Ernest KONAN (Peripheria), Yanick LÉTOURNEAU (Yennenga Production), Yoro MBAYE (.)
    • Synopsis
    • A film-ritual that invites viewers to take part in a ceremony in which a dramatic struggle for power is won by … poetry. Set at the La Maca prison in Abidjan, the film transports us into a stuffy, overcrowded, tension-filled labyrinth. This is a place governed by its own gangster code and with its own rulers in charge of maintaining the fragile balance. When Roman ends up behind bars, the issue of choosing a successor to Barbe Noire, who is losing strength and, with it, power, is about to be settled. Like hyenas, the self-proclaimed heirs wait to inherit the throne; a bloody gang war is brewing. In order to gain time, Barbe Noire orders Roman to tell a story without interruption throughout the night. The protagonist of the story, who takes us into a world of myths and magic, is the outcast and bandit Zama. Under the red moon hanging over La Maca, Scheherazade meets Shakespeare, but Lacôte’s film is immersed primarily in local traditions (griots) and personal experiences (the director’s mother was imprisoned at La Maca for being an oppositionist). Drawing on experiences from the Ivory Coast, magical and political realism are combined to create a universal poem about authorities that play with matches—with the lives of devoted and naive young people.
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