EXCLUSIVE: Screen can reveal the first trailer for Cannes Un Certain Regard title Congo Boy.

Congolese director Fariala makes his fiction feature debut after documentary We, Students! launched in Berlinale Panorama in 2022.

The film is set in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui and follows 17-year-old Robert, whose dream of a music career is in jeopardy. His parents have been thrown in prison, leaving him to care for his four younger siblings, and civil war is tearing apart the country.

Congo Boy came through Marrakech Film Festival’s prestigious Atlas workshops in 2022, and features dialogue in the African languages of Sango, Lingala and Swahili, as well as French.

The Party Film Sales are handling international sales.

 

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