Bérangère Condomines

On Comoros, the women’s national basketball team is training for the Indian Ocean Island Games. In the past, this tournament played between different archipelagos in the Indian Ocean was the scene of political tension: in 2015, the team from the island of Mayotte, which is still French territory, decided to carry a French flag, prompting the athletes from the three independent islands to storm out.

Lou, a 12-year-old goat, lives with her brother Koa and her mother Zoé, a storyteller, in a mountain hamlet. During the autumn migration, a storm sweeps Zoé away. Determined to find her, Lou ventures alone into the snowy heights, where she bonds with a mysterious creature who reveals the mountains secrets and the world of Spirits to her. This journey of initiation unveils Lou as the new storyteller, ready to carry on her mother's traditions and those of her community.

In a village on the edge of the desert, 12-year-old Ahmed is destined to take over his father’s forge but he dreams only of adventures, wilderness and freedom. With 2 young nomads that he befriends, Slimane and Mançoura, he will learn the secrets of the desert. Together they will discover the mine that just opened. Despite the gold that it seems to promise, they will face its darkness. Exhausted bodies, polluted springs, destruction of the village social structure. Confronted with the hopelessness of his own people, the hell of the mines and Mançoura’s forced marriage, Ahmed will work up the courage to assert himself. And as he struggles he will shape a future for his land and his people.