Elza
New York African Film Festival 2012
April 11 - 17, 2012
Filmmaker in person!
Bernadette, a single mother in Paris, is thrilled when her eldest, Elza, is the first in the family to graduate from college. But Elza breaks her mother’s heart by running away to their native Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood memory: the father she barely remembers.
Filmmaker in person!
Bernadette, a single mother in Paris, tries to provide her daughters with everything. She is thrilled when her eldest daughter, Elza, is the first in the family to graduate from college earning a master’s degree summa cum laude. But Elza breaks her mother’s heart by running away to their native Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood memory: the father she barely remembers.
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