Billo is a young Sénégalese Muslim with a dream: become a fashion designer. Between his penniless dodgy boat arrival on the Italian coast and the marriage with two women - and African and an Italian - Billo survives it all. But one day a call from Senegal arrives: everything is set for his upcoming wedding...
Screenplay: Marco Bonini, Mbacke Gadji, Laura Muscardin, Lucilla Schiaffino
Cinematography: Maria Teresa Punzi
Editing: Marco Spoletini
Music: Youssou N'Dour
Sound: Piergiorgio De Luca, Brando Mosca, Christine Charpail
Cast: Thierno Thiam, Susy Laude, Marco Bonini, Paolo Gasparini, Paul N'Dour, Carmen de Santos, Luisa De Santis, Rokhaya Soumaré, Boubacar Bŕ, Lella Costa
Prizes and selections:
Festival de Villerupt 2006 (Prix Amilcar du Jury - Best Picture), Festival du Cinéma Italien de Paris 2007 (Best Picture), Syracuse International Film Festival New York 2007 (Best Music Score Award), Temecula Valley International Film Festival 2007 (Best Feature Film)
Production:
The Coproducers
(marco@thecoproducers.org; www.thecoproducers.org), Youssou N'Dour, Marco Bonini, Jacques Lipkau Goyard
Distribution:
Achab Film
(Rome, T +39 06 8547230 / 8542840; F +39 06 8415761; produzione@achabfilm.it)
11 Nov, 18.00 - Villa Medici
