A group of children attend school in Kolofata’s village, at the border with Nigeria, under a shadow threat. Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the region. In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of children as they carve out their own worlds amid the dangers of armed conflict. Raingou, a native of the Far North Region herself, approaches her young subjects with a delicate and unobtrusive observance, allowing them to dictate the reality of their surroundings through their own words and perspectives. The result is a distinct and profound study of the contrasts of a war zone – hope and despair, innocence, and terrorism, the present and future, western influence and traditional culture.
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