Africa Paradis

D: Sylvestre Amoussou, Benin 2006, 86 min, Engl. subtitles

Discussion with the director

Berlin premiére

Africa Paradis changes the perspective: the film doesn’t show Africans who manage to arrive illegally in Europe, but a French couple who dream of a better life in Africa. When they do not receive a visa for the ‘United States of Africa’, they – the engineer Olivier and the teacher Pauline - have to hire the services of a professional refugee smuggler...