DIYA – OPENING FILM

EAST AFRICAN PREMIERE

Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N’Djamena, leads a peaceful life with his young wife Delphine, who is eight months pregnant. A moment of inattention, a cell phone ringing at the wrong time, a boy crossing the road too quickly. It’s an accident. After some confusion at the hospital, he is told that the young boy has died. The deceased’s family demands compensation and claims “the Diya,” the price of blood. His quest to pay the Diya will take him to the desert in northern Chad. It is there, in the vast landscape, that Dane will discover the truth about the event that turned his life upside down.

• DIYA a film by Achille Ronaimou
  with Ferdinand Mbaïssané, Moussa Zakaria Ibet, Ramada Mahamat, Youssouf Djaoro, Haïkal Zakaria
• Screenplay Achille Ronaimou
• Director of Photography Cyrille Hubert Executive Producer Annabel Thomas Chief Editor Guillaume Talvas
  Sound Engineer Jean-Christophe Lion
• Original Music Afrotronix
• Producers Issa Serge Coelo / Valéry du Peloux