Fievres
Description
Fevers, winner of FESPACO - Africa's largest film festival - 2015 grand prize, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, is a French version of We Need to Talk About Kevin about a disturbed young man raised in foster care who enters his father's Muslim household in the suburbs of Paris and becomes a major source of disruption in the family. At only thirteen, Benjamin is a little soldier at war with life, adults and with himself. Since the age of five, the troubled kid goes back and forth into foster homes. But when his mother goes to jail and reveals to Benjamin the existence of his father, the young boy is determined to get out of foster care. So when the social worker gives him the choice, he decides to go live at his unknown father's place.
Runtime
90 minutes
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Too cold to swim
Reaching Teens
Every child matters & multi-agency working
Death of a salesman
Happy end
Reaching teens. 66.11
From the inside. Personal challenges for teens reentering society
Sunday morning. Father and son
Surviving Sabu
Little Eyolf
Curse of the golden flower
Reaching teens. 66.13
Chefs a' field. Kids on the farm. In search of avocadoes. Season 3
Tony Brown's journal. Is there something wrong with today's youth?