L’Avance
Director: Djiby Kebe
Country: France
Year: 2024
Length: 18'
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Djiby Kebe, Ahmadou Bamba-Thiam
Cinematography: Tara-Jay Bangalter
Music: Lyele
Production company: Chérubins Productions
Appearing: Saabo Balde, Julia Faure, Juliette Speck, Djibi Diakhaté
Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his late mother to a renowned collector for 5,000 euros. Delivering it becomes a long journey weighed down by the contradictory demands on a young artist of African descent: to succeed without betraying his roots.