Seeds of Hope

CHAIR’S CHOICE 

Introduced by French Film Festival Chair Debora Kayembe in conversation with Director Fiona Lloyd-Davies in person

Filmed over three years, director Fiona Lloyd-Davies takes us deep into the lives of Congolese women and children. She tells the extraordinary story of Masika Katsuva, a woman who survived repeated rape yet dedicated her life to helping thousands of other women and children who also suffered sexual violence. The narrative also reveals the motivations of some of the perpetrators, many of them soldiers whose duty it should have been to protect the women they have been brutally violating. Shown at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.

“A story of the triumph of human nature over terrible abuse” The Standard

Seeds of Hope will be preceded by the short film Amani, winner of the Silver Foal for fiction short film, FESPACO 2021, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Amani 

Directed by Alliah Fatin | Quebec, Canada, 2021 | Fiction | 17min | In French with English subtitles | 15+

Midway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. Amani’s innocence and joie de vivre open the narrator’s eyes to the humanity he had never really cared about before. But as the night begins to rumble, Amani’s joie de vivre disappears to give way to his pain, which echoes in the silence of the plain.

Our Festival Pass gives you access to five films in the French Festival UK at the Institut français d’Écosse!