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14th DMZ Docs(2022)

I AM DOCU



We, Students!

Rafiki FARIALA

  • Central African Republic , France, Democratic Republic of Congo, Saudi Arabia
  • 2022
  • 82min
  • 12 +
  • DCP
  • color

AP

Synopsis

Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki study economics at the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic. The four friends contemplate their reality and future as they struggle in an environment rampant with poor facilities, corruption and incompetence. Rafiki holds the camera and captures everyday life of himself and his friends. His portraits of young people in the Central African Republic do not consist solely of frustration. It also contains the dreams and passions of young people for a better future.

Review

Students at Bangui University in Central African Republic ponder why they are currently poor, unable to get a decent job, and unable to lead a stable life. Of course, it's not that difficult for them to find answers to those questions. They know it's because of the corruption and inability of their national government to decide everything they've never been able to choose. The director frankly captures the actual daily life of himself and his friends on camera and shows how intimately what he thought were external factors intruded into the individual. Even when it is difficult to expect and hope that they will be able to live with their loved ones for a long time and be able to lead their own families they don't blame all the problems on themselves, and they seriously think about how to get out of this pit. The film tells the story of young people of the present age and shouts out a story that we can sympathize with even in unfamiliar landscape. Even if it's a generation that seems to have lost everything, that's not all.

Director

  • Rafiki FARIALA

    Rafiki Fariala arrived early in the Central African Republic, where his parents took refuge because of the war. In 2013, under the pseudonym RAFIKI - RH20, he records his first piece Why war? which becomes a hit.

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