EAT BITTER
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Luan, a Chinese immigrant in Bangui in the Central African Republic, is a site manager. He is supervising the construction of a bank's head office. At the other end of the chain, Thomas, a Central African, dives into the river every day to collect sand used in the construction of the bank. These two very different destinies share a common dream: a better future. In this documentary, filmmakers Pascale Appora-Gnekindy & Ningyi Sun present the intersecting portraits of two men, two families and two communities, living side by side in a country marked by a long civil war. EAT BITTER is an invitation to look beyond appearances.
Cooperation: Friedensbildungswerk Köln
EAT BITTER Direction: Ningyi Sun, Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, DCP, OmeU, 96 min
Guest
Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, originally from the Central African Republic (CAR), is the owner of Kéa-Kwis Production, a video production company in Bangui, CAR. She co-directed her first feature-length documentary EAT BITTER (2023) with Ning Yi Sun, a Chinese national living in New York. She has also directed two short documentaries, MES YEUX POUR ENTENDRE (2017) and DEUX SŒURS (2019). Pascale came to film production informally, from the IT world. In 2022, she initiated the "Ecrire à Bangui" film-writing workshop, the second edition of which took place in June-July 2024. She is currently studying for a master's degree in Audiovisual Production and Financing at the Institut Supérieur d'Etudes des Arts (IESA Arts&Culture) in Paris.