America Street, America Street

Idrissou Mora Kpaï

USA, 2020, 74’

French Premiere

Idrissou Mora Kpaï

The film delicately unfolds the sad picture of the city of Charleston through the bitter memories, broken dreams and dull anger of Joe Watson, a neighbourhood grocer. His shop becomes, through his testimony and that of his customers, a recording chamber for the memory of a black community filled with anger against institutions (police, schools, real estate) plagued by segregationism and racial hatred. This is where the death of Walter Scott, killed by a police officer, was captured on video and gave an impulsion to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tahar Chikhaoui (Extract from the catalog of the Pays d’Apt African Film Festival)

Technical sheet

  • Original Version:
    English.
  • Subtitles:
    French.
  • Script:
    Idrissou Mara-Kpaï.
  • Photography:
    Idrissou Mara-Kpaï.
  • Editing:
    Misha Mehrel, Isabelle Stroll.
  • Sound:
    Shawn Jackson.
  • Production:
    Idrissou Mara-Kpaï (Independent).