In their debut performances, Justin Wang and Endurance Newton are a Cameroonian and a Nigerian battling their way across the...
In their debut performances, Justin Wang and Endurance Newton are a Cameroonian and a Nigerian battling their way across the Sahara, bound for Europe.
"While crossing the Sahara desert to get to Europe, Léonard (Wang), a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope (Newton), a Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where safety requires staying with one’s own people, their language, religion, and culture oppose them. Nevertheless, they try to find their way together, and to love each other." (Alliance Française French Film Festival)
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"...this confident narrative debut for French docu helmer Boris Lojkine is perhaps too solemnly muted (and its title too ironic) for extensive non-Francophone distribution."
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Variety
Variety"The narrative trajectory of this African road movie, traversing poverty, danger, doomed optimism and finally tragedy, is too well-worn to help "Hope" stand out."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterHope (2014) | Details
Award winner- Winner of the Grand Golden Rail (Lojkine) and the SACD Award (Lojkine), 2014 Cannes Film Festival
- Rating
- R13, Violence, sexual themes & content that may disturb
- Runtime
- 86
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France
