Café Cinéma - 28 Oct

Comme un Lion - Little Lion directed by Samuel Collardley

"Comme un lion ou le chemin de croix des footballeurs africains. L'envers du décor de la planète foot: désillusion, arnaque des joueurs, argent, un esclavage des temps modernes. Le tout filmé par le réalisateur Samuel Collardey." SlateAfrique

Inspired by true events, this movie depicts a side of the football world rarely seen. We follow Mitri a 15 young boy from Senegal. Dreaming to play for the major soccer european club, he trust a recruting agent to help him achieve his goal. But human trafficking in soccer fields also exist; Mitri is going tosee his life changing when the agent appears to be a crook. Stuck in France with no money and no relative, bearing the family pressure of their debt to support his trip to France, Mitri will make his way to Africans Communicty centrer trying to get help. His touching journey will eventually make him meet happy days again.

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French movie screening -w- French subtitles

Cheese platter and glass of wine available $13

For AFC members only.