A singular new voice born in Cameroon and based in New York, Ellie Foumbi is set to shine on the international scene at the Venice Film Festival, where her feature debut, “Our Father, the Dev…
, where her feature debut, “Our Father, the Devil,” will be presented as part of the Biennale College-Cinema section. Foumbi, who is represented by UTA, is the second Black female helmer to be selected in the festival’s history, following Regina King’s feature debut “One Night in Miami” in 2020.
“There aren’t a lot of films about child soldiers, some have looked at the process of how they are brought in, the horrors they experience, but no one ever asks how they start over,” says Foumbi, adding that she was inspired to tell this story partly due to her father’s work at the United Nations. “They lived there in a tiny town for over a decade, working as nuns and pretending to be charitable, until a man from Rwanda who was visiting a friend went to the local church and recognized one of the women,” says Foumbi. Ultimately, the women were arrested and put on trial.
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