Feature film
Dôlè
Imunga Ivanga · 2000
Synopsis
In Libreville, Mougler, a boy of about fifteen, hangs around the streets with his friends Baby Lee, Joker, Akson and Bezingo, left to fend for themselves like him and constantly devising schemes to realise their dreams. Worried about his mother's health, Mougler takes the lead of the gang to find the money for her medicine. A very popular scratch game, the dôlè, which promises to make one a millionaire, has just appeared, and the gang plans to rob a kiosk that sells its cards.
Context
The first feature film by its author, the film was released in France on 10 January 2001 and runs from eighty to eighty-eight minutes depending on the sources. David Nguema Nkogue plays Mougler, Marie-Françoise Mimbie his mother. An American university record sees in it a Gabonese view of the crisis of youth: faced with the crumbling of families, young people turn to one another and to a global popular culture. Khaled Elraz describes it as a frank but unbitter portrait of an African society grappling with modern problems.
Who it is for
A feature film in French of about an hour and twenty minutes, carried by young performers, released in cinemas in France.
Prizes and reception
Golden Tanit at the Carthage Film Days in 2000; jury prize at Cannes Junior.
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