Small Country: An African Childhood
When The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History
Directed by Eric Barbier
Produced by Jerico Films, Super 8 Production
A coming-of-age story that uses a child's perspective to capture the collision between innocent childhood joy and the encroaching darkness of genocide and historical trauma.
Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
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