Completed Films

Awara soup

A Film by Marie-Clémence et César Paes

- Coproducer -

Synopsis
Awara soup is a kind of stew which contains a little oil from the Awara - the fruit of a common palm tree in Guyana - that the creoles cook on Easter Monday. The preparing of this dish was a pretext for encounters with the inhabitants in Mana, a small town of 1.500 inhabitants where 12 languages are currently spoken.

Product guide
Documentary
70 min
Color
35 mm

Film Crew
Director : Marie-Clémence et César Paes
Cinematographer - D.O.P. : César Paes
Sound : Bernard Oses
Sound Recording Mixer : Philippe Greugnon
Editor : Agnès Contensou
Music : Nokko

Producers
Cobra Films & Latérit productions

Coproduction
RTBF -ARTE ORSTOM

With The Support
CNC ( Paris) - Documentary, Eurimages, Procirep, Plan 19/9 de la CEE, DRAC GUYANE,
Commune de MANA, FAS ( France)

Press
kino_kommunales.pdf
Africine.pdf

Award
Meilleur film ethnographique du festival dei Popoli à Florence, Meilleur film sur la culture créole, Vues d'Afrique de Montréal (Canada), Grand prix du public au Festival Noir tout Couleurs de Guadeloupe
Diffusions

Broadcasts
RTBF (Belgique), La 7/ARTE (France), RFO, SBS (Australie), DRE (Allemagne), SFI (Afrique), diffusion salles : Suisse

Festival (s)
Festival de Lussas, Sunny side of the doc de Marseille, Festival cinéma du réel de Paris (France)
Prix