YOON
2021 | 84' | color | 16:9Portugal/Senegal
[dir. Pedro Figueiredo Neto
& Ricardo Falcão]
YOON follows the regular round trip taken by Senegalese routier Mbaye Sow, on an old Peugeot 504, along the 4000 Kms that separate the two places he calls home. It’s a perilous and lonesome journey south, filled with (mis)encounters and all kinds of challenges and compromises, where a complex network of relationships and grey areas must be navigated.
YOON | jɒn | is a Wolof word which can mean “path”, “law”, “norm”, “religion”, or simply “journey”.
Festivals & Awards (selection):
- DocLuanda 2023, Competição Internacional (Angola)
- Transcultural Cinema Freiburger FilmForum 2023 - Veins of Life (DE)
- Crocevia di Sguardi Film Festival 2023 Turim, (IT)
- Filmfestival Eberswalde Provinziale 2023 - international competition (DE)
- FilmAfrica 2022, The Royal African Society (UK)
- Short listed for the DocAlliance Awards 2022
- Visions du Réel, Switzerland 2022
- Dok.Fest Munchen International Film Festival, Germany 2022
- Millennium Doc Against Gravity Int. Film Festival, Poland 2022 -
- Miradas Doc 2022 - XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental 2022: international competition, Opera Prima section
- IDFA 2021 - International Documentary Film Festival of Amesterdam: Best of Fests section
- Ji.hlava 2021 International Documentary Film Festival: Opus Bonum section, Best Film (Student Award)
- DocLisboa 2021 - International Documentary Film Festival: Portuguese Competition section, Healthy Workplaces Film Award
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