Hope
Boris Lojkine
On her way to Europe Hope meets Léonard. She needs a protector and he hasn't got the heart to abandon her. In a hostile world where everyone must stick together, they try to progress together and love each other.
With : Justin Wang, Endurance Newton
Screenplay : Boris Lojkine
Image : Elin Kirschfink
Sound : Marc-Olivier Brullé
Editing : Gilles Volta
Music : David Bryant
Screenplay : Boris Lojkine
Image : Elin Kirschfink
Sound : Marc-Olivier Brullé
Editing : Gilles Volta
Music : David Bryant
Production : Zadig Films / 70 rueAmelot, 75011 Paris / Tél. : +33 (0)1 58 30 80 10 / Email : info@zadigproductions.com
Distribution: Pyramide, Roxane Arnold / 5 rue du Chevalier de Saint-George, 75008 Paris / Tél. : + 33 (0)1 40 20 05 51 / Email : rarnold@pyramidefilms.com
Distribution: Pyramide, Roxane Arnold / 5 rue du Chevalier de Saint-George, 75008 Paris / Tél. : + 33 (0)1 40 20 05 51 / Email : rarnold@pyramidefilms.com
After the EcoleNormale, a degree in philosophy and a thesis on "Crisis and History", Boris Lojkine decided to leave university. He closed his books and went to Vietnam, a country he had previously lived in and where he had learned the language, to live out an adventure. While there he made two documentaries Ceux qui restent (2001) and Les Âmes errantes (2005), two films which talk from the Vietnamese side of the impossible mourning of the men and women whose lives have been intercepted by war. With Hope, his first fiction, he changed continent to explore migration in Africa.
"Talking about my life or the lives of people from my social background does not interest me. It does not make me want to make a film. I need adventure, inspiration. What interests me is to talk about lives that have been crossed by something bigger than they are, whether it is lives marked by war, as in my two documentaries shot in Veitnam, or here in Hope, lives carried away on the great wave of migration. Adventure has changed place. It is no longer Europeans exploring wild places. Indiana Jones is done! Today's adventurers are men and women leaving the South to conquer the North. When migrants tell of their journeys, they talk of vast areas inhabited by bandits, unknown lands with strange practices. They spread before you a heroic geography which is not the objective geography of an atlas. Their adventures seem to belong to another time. And yet these people do belong to our world. Proof being that they wash up on our shores."
"Talking about my life or the lives of people from my social background does not interest me. It does not make me want to make a film. I need adventure, inspiration. What interests me is to talk about lives that have been crossed by something bigger than they are, whether it is lives marked by war, as in my two documentaries shot in Veitnam, or here in Hope, lives carried away on the great wave of migration. Adventure has changed place. It is no longer Europeans exploring wild places. Indiana Jones is done! Today's adventurers are men and women leaving the South to conquer the North. When migrants tell of their journeys, they talk of vast areas inhabited by bandits, unknown lands with strange practices. They spread before you a heroic geography which is not the objective geography of an atlas. Their adventures seem to belong to another time. And yet these people do belong to our world. Proof being that they wash up on our shores."