AYA
Aya grows up with her mother on the island of Lahou. Joyful and carefree, she likes to pick coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, her paradise is doomed to disappear under the waters. As the waves threaten her house, Aya makes a choice: the sea can rise, but she will not leave her island.
Reviews
Aya, the first feature film by Belgian filmmaker Simon Coulibaly Gillard, with its blue and pink tones, has the sweetness of innocence. And from a dream from which we always end up waking up.
Franceinfo Culture
A brilliant first film.
Les Fiches du Cinéma
The result adopts a form of weightlessness, operates by moving waves on the fluid surface of the images, as if imitating the movements of a body in water. […] Thus the film manages to become one with the daily life of a community, fleeing the didacticism of the show presentation on climate refugees.
Libération
The staging films with strength and sensuality his outer and inner world. The documentary dimension, on the other hand, acts as much as a supplement of soul as a call to order: what is being played out there has nothing to do with a filmmaker’s fantasy.
Premiere
- By : Simon Coulibaly Gillard
- With : Marie-Josée Degny Kokora, Patricia Egnabayou, Junior Asse
- Year : 2022
- Duration : 90 min.
- Genre : Drama
- Language : French (English subtitles)
- Country : France
- Rating : All audiences
