Eugène Gabana, the oil tanker
Jeanne Delafosse and Camille Plagnet / 59 min / 2014
To be 20 in Ouagadougou when you're penniless.
Eugène Gabana Le Pétrolier tells the story of a certain kind of poor youth in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, through the day-to-day life of Eugène, a small-town “affaire man” who tries to make a life for himself out of petty squabbles and great resourcefulness.
Fiche technique
Photography and sound: Jeanne Delafosse and Camille Plagnet
editing: Florence Bresson
Projections et festivals
Supported by Contribution financière du CNC, Région Haute Normandie and Région Aquitaine, bourse Brouillon d'un rêve SCAM, bourse culture france Louis Lumière
Special mention at Kassel Documentary film festival
Black-headed Python, Original Screenplay Award at Quintessence, Ouidah International Film Festival
Festival Cinéma du Réel (Paris), Festival Visions du Réel (Nyon), Open City Doc (London), EDOC (Quito, Ecuador), Mediterranean Film Festival (Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia-Herzegovina), Festival dei Popoli (Florence), Festival international du film d'Amiens, Festival international du film d'Afrique et des Iles (Ile de la Réunion), Festival Sans Canal Fixe (Tours), Festival du film de Vendôme, Festival du film documentaire de Saint Louis du Sénégal, International women's film festival (Dortmund, Cologne), Docafriques (Paris), Koudougoudoc (Burkina Faso), Les Inattendus (Lyon), Mois du film documentaire, Traces de vies, Festival étonnants voyageurs (Saint-Malo).
Broadcast by Tenk Tv and Médiapart.