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Plot. The film tells the story of Gabriel, a happy 10 year old living with his French entrepreneur father and Rwandan mother in a expatriate neighborhood in Burundi. As the 1993 tensions in Rwanda starts, his family and innocence is threatened. [5] [6]
- Petit Pays
- Éric Barbier
- Éric Barbier
Tensions in neighboring Rawanda threaten the peaceful existence of a Burundi boy and his friends and family.
- Eric Barbier
- Drama
- Jean-Paul Rouve
Aug 27, 2020 · Review: Small Country: An African Childhood. 27/08/2020 - Éric Barbier successfully and faithfully adapts Gaël Faye’s excellent novel, about the Rwandan genocide seen through the eyes of a mixed race child from neighbouring Burundi. “We walked into a great nightmare.”.
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise.
Drama. PLOT : Based on a true story, Gabriel — a young boy born to a French father and Rwandan mother — grows up in the small African country of Burundi. Despite some tension in his family life, Gabriel lives a carefree life — until civil unrest in Rwanda spills over into Burundi.
Director. Eric Barbier. Synopsis. A touching childhood set during the conflict in Rwanda between ethnicities Hutu and Tutsi - adapted from the book of Gaël Faye.
Mar 8, 2019 · synopsis. Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his “small country”. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993 tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence. Review: Small Country: An African Childhood.
