Run
New York African Film Festival 2015
May 6 - 12, 2015
Q&A with Isaach de Bankolé and filmmaker Philippe Lacote
This alternately dreamlike and ultra-realistic coming-of-age tale—the first film from the Ivory Coast selected to screen at Cannes—uses mesmerizing flashbacks to recount the life of Run, who is hiding out after assassinating the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast.
Q&A with Isaach de Bankolé and filmmaker Philippe Lacote
Run finds shelter with fellow dissident Assa (Isaach de Bankolé) after assassinating the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast. While in hiding, Run’s story is revealed in three separate flashback chapters—his childhood with Tourou, when his dream was to become a rainmaker; his adventures with Gladys, the competitive eater; and his past as a young member of a militia, amid conflict in the Ivory Coast—which together speak volumes about contemporary life in the troubled country. Philippe Lacôte’s feature-film debut is a mesmerizing coming-of-age tale, alternately dreamlike and ultra-realistic.
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