A Season in France

Director: Mahamet-Saleh Haroun

2017 / 100min / DCP

Chadean filmmaker Haroun’s first film set in his long-time adoptive home of France is an understated but enormously affecting depiction of the travails faced by undocumented African immigrants in Europe, starring Eriq Ebouaney as a stubbornly prideful, trauma-wracked refugee from the Central African Republic Civil War, a recent widower struggling against impossible odds to build a better life for his son, daughter, and himself; and Bibi Tanga as his brother, both former academics forced to scramble after menial jobs in a pitiless Paris. “A deeply felt, compassionate film about refugees who find that one of their bitterest abasements is the loss of dignity and status.”—The Guardian

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