Co-produced by Paul Thiltges Distribution
Distributed by BAC Films
International sales MK2
With the support of TV5MONDE, GKIDS, Proximus, Canal+ International, Eurimages
Based on the eponymous novel by Ahmadou Kourouma
Renaudot Award and Goncourt des lycéens 2000 Award
Synopsis
Birahima, a ten-year-old Guinean orphan, tells with the help of four dictionaries and a lot of irony how he becomes a child soldier when he tries to join his aunt in Liberia.