Les Orphelins de Sankara

Spoken: French. Subtitles: English.

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of Burkinabè president Thomas Sankara, the liquidation of the Revolution by Blaise Compaoré and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return, to build lives for themselves, to even exist? The narrative of this utopia of Red Africa and the epic memories of these children are mixed with archive images.