{"id":11720,"date":"2022-08-24T23:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T23:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11720"},"modified":"2022-10-02T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T16:37:15","slug":"hawa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/hawa\/","title":{"rendered":"HAWA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HAWA<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664382327786{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Saturday, October 15<\/b> – Renoir Theatre \u2013 1:30 pm
\n(Screening ends at 3:40 pm)
\n<\/em>+ Short Film Presentation<\/a>: FREEDOM SWIMMER<\/span>
\nFollowed by a conversation with writer\/director <\/b>Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

FICTION \/ DRAMA
\nFRENCH NEWAVE 2.0
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Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Amazon Prime Video
\nFrance Televisions
\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/632686c0900fd0006356b4a6″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664728632882{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]U.S. Premiere<\/b><\/span> | France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0| Drama, Comedy |\u00a0104\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: <\/span>Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: Zangro (Bien ou Bien Productions), Amazon Studios
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: Antoine Sanier<\/span>
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Nicolas Desmaison
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Erwann Chandon
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>: <\/span>Sania Halifa<\/span> (Hawa)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Oumou Sangar\u00e9<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Yseult<\/span> (herself)<\/span>, Chanchal Chowdhury, Thomas Pesquet (himself)
\n<\/span>International Distributor<\/b>: Amazon Prime Video<\/span><\/p>\n

Hawa, a 15-year-old girl with a spectacular blond afro, Coke-bottle glasses, and an innate disregard for convention, is not your typical Parisian teen. Maminata, her beloved grandmother and sole guardian, is terminally ill and doesn’t have long to live.\u00a0 But she still hasn’t found a family to take in her soon-to-be orphaned granddaughter. So Hawa comes up with the perfect solution herself.\u00a0 Michelle Obama is visiting Paris and has publicly expressed how much she misses her daughters, now that they’ve grown-up and moved out. Obviously, the Obamas should adopt Hawa. Now she just has to convince the former First Lady.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Paris to Senegalese parents, <\/span>Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9<\/b> grew up in a polygamous family with two mothers. She graduated with a degree in biology from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and made her first short film, <\/span>Hide-and-seek<\/span><\/i>, in 2013.\u00a0 Her second short, <\/span>Mother(s)<\/span><\/i> (2015), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was screened at Sundance, shared the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Short Film with Alice Diop’s <\/span>Towards Tenderness<\/span><\/i>, and won the COLCOA Short Film Jury Award.\u00a0 The screenplay for her highly-lauded but somewhat controversial first feature, <\/span>Cuties<\/span><\/i> (2020), won the Sundance Global Filmmaking Award in 2017, eventually premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic section of the Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered the World Cinema Directing Award. That film subsequently nabbed a Most Promising Actress C\u00e9sar Award for its talented young lead, Fathia Youssouf. <\/span>Hawa<\/i><\/b>, her second feature, premiered in the Platform section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hawa.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hawa2.webp” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663686668195{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] HAWA [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664382327786{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Saturday, October 15 – Renoir Theatre \u2013 1:30 pm (Screening ends at 3:40 pm) + Short Film Presentation: FREEDOM SWIMMER Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Ma\u00efmouna Doucour\u00e9 FICTION \/ DRAMA FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663821818361{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11720","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11720\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}