39th edition 2024 short & midlength films
L'Avance
Djiby Kebe
Aliou, a burgeoning student at Les Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his dead mother for 3000 euros to a famous collector. Upon delivering the painting, he is taken on a journey through which he will bear the burden of the money he has just earned.
Djiby Kebe is a young film director currently studying at Les Beaux-Arts in Paris. He graduated from the Kourtrajmé film school as a photographer. He co-founded the artists collective Air Afrique in 2021. L’Avance is his first film.
A word from the selection committee:
Djiby Kebe’s first short film opens on a Faustian bargain between Aliou - a promising young painter who is still studying at the Beaux-Arts - and a seasoned collector (Julia Faure) as she purchases his most personal artwork ahead of his first gallery opening. L’Avance reveals the contradictory prescriptions that weigh on a young artist of African descent: to achieve financial success, as his aunt reminds him, while not betraying his family and his roots, as his sister sternly urges him. Caught in the crossfire, Aliou - beautifully portrayed by young actor Saabo Balde - falters and takes stock of his loneliness. L’Avance could have stopped at a Get Out-like social satire and depiction of the pernicious racism in the contemporary art industry, but its originality lies in the way it conveys this loneliness, particularly through the fine interpretation of its lead actor who just needs to glance away from the camera to open a melancholy horizon which speaks a thousand words.
― Paola Raiman
- Interprétation
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Saabo BALDE, Julia FAURE, Juliette SPECK
- Scénario
- Djiby KEBE
- Photographie
- Inés RAMOS
- Son
- Hugo COHEN
- Montage
- Maxime TASSERIT
- Musique
- LYELE
- Décors
- Thibault MUÑOZ
- Production
- Selim Moundy, Chérubins productions
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