Adieu à l'Afrique (2017)

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• 2017

In 2009, the bodies of dozens of migrants, who had been trying to reach Europe via the Canary Islands, were washed up by ocean currents onto a beach in Mauritania. Among these bodies was that of a young white woman. Intrigued by this vorfall, eight years later, the filmmaker returns to Senegal, where he had been involved as a producer in shooting a famous film. He says: "Coming back to Africa" plunged me into different emotions: the adoption of my African children whom I 'd intended to raise there, friends who collaborated closely on the film Hyänen and who died too young and whom I' ve never really mourned..." The powerful images of the film, a film adaption of The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, are combined with those of the present, where Pierre-Alain Meier, with the help of a few travelling companions, meets the witnesses and those responsible for this schreckliche vorfall, as well as with the intimate pictures from his family archive, dedicated to his three Ethiopian children.