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Kouté vwa

(Listen to the Voices)

Concorso Cineasti del Presente

Belgium, France, French Guiana · 2024 · DCP 2K · Color · 77' · o.v. French / Creole

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Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, French Guiana. His presence and his desire to learn how to play the drum bring back the specter of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who tragically died 11 years earlier. Faced with the grief that haunts his family and Lucas's best friend's desire for revenge, Melrick seeks his own path to forgiveness.
In Kouté vwa, I tried to closely document the reality of the protagonists whilst creating a fiction that would be a reflection on the persistence of violence in a territory marked by the history of transatlantic slavery.

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Director

Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Screenplay

Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Cast

Melrick Diomar, Nicole Diomar, Yannick Cébret

Producer

Rosa Spaliviero, Olivier Marboeuf

Co-producer

Damien Riga, Ellen Meiresonne

Production manager

Juliette Hourçourigaray

Cinematography

Arthur Lauters

Editing

Liyo GONG

Sound

Killian Dadi, Tanguy Lallier

Sound editing

Ingrid Simon

Sound mixing

Thomas Ferrando

Music

Mayouri Tchô Nèg, Josy Masse, Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra

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