Retour à Mandima

Back To Mandima

Switzerland, July 2011
FILM, Documentary, 40 min.

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directed by
Robert-Jan Lacombe
Written by
Robert-Jan Lacombe
Status
In distribution

Back to Mandima, to find my village and my three best friends in the heart of the Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An attempt to bring closure to an ideal, idealized childhood and free myself from its spells. In the meantime there was a war, a varnish of time, 15 years. Nothing changed? Everything has. What is friendship, beyond skin colour, when one can take the plane and the other can't? When one uses the informal “you” and the other the formal “You”.

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World Premiere
July 2011
Original Version
French, Swahili (english subtitles),  colour, Digi Beta, 40 min.
ISAN
0000-0002-FDB7-0000-R-0000-0000-U
Production
École cantonale d'art de Lausanne Département Cinéma
Producer
Lionel Baier, Geneviève Rossier
directed by
Robert-Jan Lacombe
Written by
Robert-Jan Lacombe
Cinemato­graphy
Robert-Jan Lacombe
Editing
Laura Froidefond
Sound Editing
Laura Froidefond
Re-Recording Mix
Jérôme Vittoz
Location Sound Mix
Robert-Jan Lacombe

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École cantonale d'art de Lausanne

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