🎬 Film-debate—Travels in foreign heads (Antonio AMARAL)
📅 Friday, January 30 7:45 PM
🤝 In partnership with the Committee of Sans Papiers 59 - Solidarité Lille
Le Kino-Ciné offers you a special screening around the film Voyages en TÊTES étrangères, a fantastic fiction anchored in reality, which questions exile, racism and commitment through a narrative as surprising as it is political.
Fiction/ fantasy feature film, 1h59, France, 2022. The film was widely noticed at festivals (numerous awards and selections).
In this film by Antonio Amaral, YEDEL has been living in a human body for a short time. With other beings from elsewhere, he only has seven days to leave... but one of them is 'grafted' to Amadou, a Malian exile, who constantly delays the departure. What is he looking for? And how far can one go to stay, live, exist?
The screening will be followed by a debate with the Comité des Sans Papiers 59 and Antonio Amaral the director, to extend the session and discuss the contemporary realities that the film is going through (migratory journeys, rights, performances, struggles).
Awards:
Best International Feature: JAGRAN FILM FESTIVAL 2023 (10th), India (the largest traveling film festival in the world)
Special prize, Black Lives Matter: KREYOL international film festival, 2025, Paris
Best Director (Antonio Amaral), Best Actor (Julien Darney): AVANCA FILM FESTIVAL 2022 (26th), Portugal
Best fiction film: BANNABAFEST, 2022, Panama.
Best sound: BANGUI FAIT SON CINÉMA, 2022, Central African Republic
Golden Capybara, best actor award (Amine Benrachid): Tietê International Film Awards, 2022, Brazil
Silver Anhuma, second prize for the best actress (Elisabeth Mbaki): Tietê International Film Awards, 2022, Brazil
Cinemistica Award: CINEMISTICA Festival (9th) 2023, Granada, Spain
Best International Feature Film: Fantastic Film Festival of France (5th), 13 Nov 2023, cinema L'arlequin, Paris
Best international feature film: 19th edition of FECIR, Rengo International Film Festival, 2023, Chile
Best international feature film: 6th edition of the São Tomé international FESTFILM, 2024, São Tomé e Príncipe
Special Mentions: Amine Benrachid (actor) & mention of the fiction film at AVANCA FILM FESTIVAL 2022 (26th), Portugal
Honourable mention for feature film at the International Migration & Environmental Film festival, 2023, Toronto, Canada
Honorable Mention for feature film at Baños de Agua Santa International Film festival, 2023, Ecuador
Special Mention at the 25th Rainbow International Film Festival, London 2024
Special Mention CINE POBRE FILM FESTIVAL | 2023, Mexico
Special Mentions: Julien Darney (actor), images by Geofrey Kenner & mention fiction film, Andromeda Film festival | session November 2022, Turkey
Special Mention: Black cat award international film festival | 2025, La Paz