The trailer for the Dominican Republic’s Oscar submission, “Bantú Mama,” has arrived. The drama tells the story of Emma (Clarisse Albrecht), a French girl of African descent who’s on the run and attempting to elude Dominican authorities after narrowly escaping arrest. “If you help me, I’ll help you,” she’s instructed by a younger woman bargaining for mutual safety and survival in essentially the most harmful district of Santo Domingo.
Emma is finally taken in by a gaggle of three youngsters who information her as their protégée in change for appearing as a maternal determine to them, inflicting “her destiny [to] change inexorably,” the movie’s synopsis teases.
The trailer exhibits Emma’s duality as a prison fugitive pushed by a survival crucial and a nurturing mentor to the members of her discovered household. We see her a caressing a baby’s head as the 2 gaze on the reflection within the mirror. “Powerful. Like a queen,” she tells the woman.
In addition to headlining, Albrecht co-wrote the screenplay of “Bantú Mama” and co-produced the challenge with director Ivan Herrera.
Albrecht beforehand appeared in “The Long Song,” a BBC interval drama a couple of girl navigating the trials and tribulations of Nineteenth-century Jamaica in its ultimate days of slavery.
“Bantú Mama” premiered at this yr’s SXSW Film Festival. Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing is bringing it to pick theaters and Netflix November 17.