Royal Bonbon


Feature – Drama

 

Coproduction : France-Canada-Haïti 

Les Films de l’Isle – Les Films du Requin © 2002 

 

Writer - Director

Charles Najman


Director of photography

Josée Deshaies, AFC

 

Actors

Dominique BATRAVILLE

Verlus DELORME

Ambroise THOMSON

Anne-Louise MESADIEU

Erol JOSUÉ

 

Producers

Cyriac AURIOL

Ian BOYD


Music

Jean-François Pauvros

 

Festivals – Prizes

Prix Jean Vigo (France) – BEST FIRST FEATURE

COMPETITION : Locarno (Suisse);  Belfort (France);

Kalamazoo (USA);  Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Opening Night feature, Festival Vues d’Afrique

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (Planet Africa)

Forum AfricAmericA (Haïti)

African Diaspora Film Festival, New York City.

Havana Film Festival

Miami International Film Festival

Trailer :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpwm43_royal-bonbon-bande-annonce-vo_shortfilms



A penniless man wanders the streets of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, dreaming of his imaginary kingdom. He believes he is King Christophe, the first monarch of the New World, a freed slave and liberator of Haiti in 1804.

Nicknamed “King Chacha,” the dreamer is run out of town. With Thimothée, a street kid he has taken under his wing, he hides up in the extraordinary ruins of “Château Sans Souci.”