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TREE OF GHIBET, THE
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original title:
TREE OF GHIBET, THE
directed by:
cast:
Corinne Cameny, André Bang, Olivier Ngoundé, Samyong Samy, i bambini di strada di Akwa-Douala/street children in Akwa-Douala
screenplay:
cinematography:
Kevin Atkinson
editing:
Antonietta Della Scala
producer:
Amedeo D'Adamo, Nevina Satta, Emanuela Zigiotto
production:
The Traveling Film School Project
country:
Italy/Cameroun/Usa
year:
2007
film run:
80'
format:
Digi Beta Pal/16mm - colour
festival & awards:
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: International Panorama
ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008: Fuori Concorso Alice
TURIN FILM FESTIVAL 2007: The State of Things
DJ, an eight-year-old child, is suddenly accused by his aunt of being possessed by devils and then abandoned on the hard streets of Douala, Cameroon. In order to survive he tries to join Ghibet’s gang of child prostitutes and street kids. The film features the kids as actors in a unique narrative combination of their stories and real life experience. It’s part of the project of The Traveling Film School, a group of filmmakers that travels the world teaching filmmaking and radical theatre.
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