Buy Tickets Tickets $10 | Festival Pass $35 | Brattle Passes OK
Update: $8 Student rush tickets available at the door (valid student ID required).
(2001) dir Alain Gomis w/Djolof Mbengue, Delphine Zingg [90 min]
El Hadj is a postgraduate student living in Paris. Once he has finished his studies he plans to return to Senegal and become a teacher. This is motivated by his political desire to rebuild the country’s infrastructure and not contribute to the ‘brain drain’ of intellectuals to Europe, as well as his personal desire to go home. But upon starting a love affair with Delphine (a white French woman) he begins to question not only his own identity but that of Senegal, and indeed Africa. He is tired of being a foreigner in France and tired of the stereotypical labeling he experiences. But having spent 6 years in France, what will he be in Senegal but an outsider?
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Buy Tickets Tickets $10 | Festival Pass $35 | Brattle Passes OK
Update: $8 Student rush tickets available at the door (valid student ID required).
(2001) dir Alain Gomis w/Djolof Mbengue, Delphine Zingg [90 min]
El Hadj is a postgraduate student living in Paris. Once he has finished his studies he plans to return to Senegal and become a teacher. This is motivated by his political desire to rebuild the country’s infrastructure and not contribute to the ‘brain drain’ of intellectuals to Europe, as well as his personal desire to go home. But upon starting a love affair with Delphine (a white French woman) he begins to question not only his own identity but that of Senegal, and indeed Africa. He is tired of being a foreigner in France and tired of the stereotypical labeling he experiences. But having spent 6 years in France, what will he be in Senegal but an outsider?
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