TROPIC OF VIOLENCE

France 2022 - DCP - 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles

Director: Manuel Schapira

Screenplay: Manuel Schapira, Delphine de Vigan

Producer: Carole Lambert

Cast: Gilles-Alane Ngalamou Hippocrate, Céline Sallette, Dali Benssalah

Print Courtesy: Memento Films International

Moses was just an infant when he arrived illegally at Mayotte, a little-known and truly poor French overseas island near Madagascar, recognized as one of the 18 French “departments” or regions, yet much more closely influenced by the culture of the nearby Comoros Islands. Raised by a French nurse, he is now a 13-year-old boy, feared by some locals because he has different colored eyes, which they call the “eyes of the devil.” Upon his mother’s sudden death and fearing deportation, he is left to only the island’s slums, where dozens of kids live on their own, completely abandoned by society. Following Bruce, the tyrannical leader of the gang, Moses must adopt their codes in order to survive.

Monday, July 11 9:15 P.M. | RR2

Saturday, July 16 12:30 P.M. | WOH

New England Premiere UTAMA

Bolivia, Uruguay, France 2022 - DCP - 87 minutes, in Spanish and in Quechua with English subtitles

Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Screenplay: Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Producers: Marcos Loayza, Federico Moreira

Cast: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Candelaria Quispe

Print Courtesy: Kino Lorber

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the passage of time.

—Saidah Russell Sponsored by Mid-Maine Global Forum