L'Avenir est ailleurs
Synopsis
1962. The Algerian War draws to a close. In the French West Indies, poverty is rife and strikes rock the region. France desperately needs unskilled labor. Mass emigration is put into action. It is the period of the BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer – Office for the Development of Emigration from the Overseas Departments and Territories). For twenty years it will supply postal, customs, and subway workers, and domestic help.
This film is a witness to these journeys – that were often one-way. The exiled speak to us about their struggles, successes, and failures, their hopes, and the difficulty of being black French, and therefore citizens apart. Today their children bear the heritage of this generation and endure the integration difficulties specific to populations born of immigration.
This film tells a story hidden, or even ignored, by many West Indians and metropolitan French. With accounts by Aimé Cesaire, Henry Bangou, Lilian Thuram, Daniel Boukman, and many others in the French West Indies and Parisian region.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Cinéma Public Films
- Co-production : Doriane Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Cinéma Public Films
- French distribution : Cinéma Public Films
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Atlan
- Screenwriters : Michel Reinette, Antoine Leonard-Maestrati
- Directors of Photography : Dominique Brabant, Claus Drexel
- Music Composer : Fred Deshayes
- Assistant directors : Peggy Reinette, Denis Kralj, Barbara Canale, Nathalie Jos
- Editor : Yann Coquart
- Sound recordists : Didier Adréa, Jacques-Marie Basse, Denis Tribalat, Gilles Métivier
- Co-producer : Gérard Poitou-Weber
- Press Attaché (film) : Annabelle Reichenbach
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French, Creole
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- French release : 28/03/2007
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 110.579
- Visa issue date : 24/01/2007
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital DTS
