After many years as a tourist guide in the Slave museum in Senegal, Alloune, 65, a widower living alone, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, taken as y from the village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World. From Charleston to Little Senegal, New York, Alloune searches for his ancestors but also for an ideal vision of an African family, only to discover a strong ostracism between African and Afro-American communities. He is embodied by his nephew Hassan, a cab driver and his girlfriend Biram, an African with modern views of love and mariage; and Ida an older woman, faced with seeing her pregnant granddaughter destroyed by drugs and life on the street.




French release
04/18/2001

Type
Feature film

Genre
Drama

Length
98 mn

Director
Rachid Bouchareb

Actors
Sotigui Kouyaté
Sharon Hope
Roschdy Zem
Karim Koussein Traore
Adetoro Makinde
Adja Diarra
Malaaika Lacario

Scriptwriter
Rachid Bouchareb
Olivier Lorelle

Associate producer
Jean Bréhat

Associate production
3B Productions

Director of photography
Youcef Sahraoui




Production Companies
3B Productions
Canal+
France 2 Cinéma
Open City Films
Tassili Films
Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH

Distributors
Alta Classics S.L. Unipersonal (Spain)
Contact Film Cinematheek (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Moskwood Media (200?) (Netherlands) (video)
Tadrart Films (France)