Un Amour d'Enfant (A Child's Love)

D: Ben Diogaye Beye, Senegal/Morocco/France 2003, 102 min, Engl. subtitles

This film portrays the life of five middle-class children in Dakar. To all appearances, they are completely normal young kids torn between school and playing on the street, torn between their first loves and heartaches. On closer look, however, the film is also a social study of the precarious situation of the middle class in a globalised Africa: affectionate but never kitschy.