''Papa lumière'' is a French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by Ada Loueilh.
Plot
Charles de Gaulle Airport
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, in April 2011. Jacques and Safi landed in
Abidjan
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, where they were repatriated urgently. He has old leather tanned by Africa and he is expat life hotelier. She, her mixed race daughter of 14 years, has become accustomed to live with her mother and does not know what to think of this big mouth and crappy father who embarked with him once. Moved to a reception center in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
, they will learn to look, to know, to love, perhaps. But there Gloria, too, the mother of Safi, left in turmoil of Abidjan and unreachable ...
Cast
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Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup (; born 8 February 1949) is a French-Danish actor, film director and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards.
Biography
Arestrup was born in Paris into a family of modest means; his father was Danish and his mother was Br ...
as Jacques
* Julia Coma as Safi
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Natacha Lindinger
Natacha Lindinger (born 20 February 1970) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1991.
Selected filmography Film
Television
References
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1970 births
Living people
French film actresses
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as Elyane
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Bruno Todeschini
Bruno Todeschini (born 19 September 1962) is a Franco-Swiss actor.
Life and career
Todeschini studied at L'école supérieure d'art dramatique in Genève and after graduating in 1986, he joined the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, directed by Pat ...
as Guy
* Jennifer Tie Lou as Gloria
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Venantino Venantini
Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor.Sabine Pakora
Sabine Pakora is a French-Ivorian actress.
Debut
Sabine Pakora studied acting at the ''Ecole supérieur d’art dramatique de Paris'' and ''Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Montpellier''.
Filmography
Theatre
References
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as The matron
* Sylvie Mauté as the humanitarian
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2015 films
2015 drama films
French drama films
2010s French-language films
2015 directorial debut films
2010s French films
Le Pacte films
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