STRANDED IN CANTON

By Måns MÅNSSON

ANTIPODE SALES & DISTRIBUTION LLC - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR

Comedy - Completed 2014

East meets African - strange, sad, funny and revealing portrait of a new kind of globalization.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2014 2014
Main competition
Porto/Post/Doc 2014
Main competition
Geneva Tous Ecrans 2014
Main competition
IFF Rotterdam 2015
Spectrum
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 77 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Måns MÅNSSON
    • Writer(s)
    • Li HONGQI, George CRAGG, Måns MÅNSSON
    • Producer(s)
    • Måns MÅNSSON (Mampasi AB), Patricia DRATI (Mampasi AB), Vanja KALUDJERCIC ( Mampasi AB), Alex CHUNG ( Mampasi AB)
    • Synopsis
    • Lebrun is a new player on the burgeoning Chinese-African trade route, brokering in Guangzhou an enormous order for Congolese presidential campaign t-shirts. But he gets stung when the order is held up in production until months after the election. Instead of returning to Kinshasa a rich man with a bright future, he remains in limbo in Guangzhou, facing nothing but mounting debts for warehousing the useless garments. Inspired by the success of fellow Africans on the field and determined not to return to the farm, Lebrun develops a plan to repurpose the t-shirts and sell them to the opposition for the 2016 election.