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YAO

By Philippe GODEAU

SKEYE INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT - as DISTR Airline, World

Action/Adventure - Completed 2018

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Family
- Countries
- FRANCE, SENEGAL
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Philippe GODEAU
- Writer(s)
- Philippe GODEAU, Agnès DE SACY
- Cast
- Omar SY, Lionel BASSE, Germaine ACOGNY, Alibeta ALIBETA, Fatoumata DIAWARA
- Synopsis
- Yao, a young boy who loves books and adventure, runs away from his village in northern Senegal – travelling 240 miles to Dakar to meet his hero, Seydou Tall, a renowned French actor visiting his native country. Moved by the boy’s dedication, the actor decides to accompany him back home. But on the byways of Senegal, nothing ever happens as expected. As they share this dusty, adventure-filled journey to Yao’s village, Seydou realizes he is also travelling towards his own roots…