HAWA
| 2022 – 104′ – Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age.
Written by: Maïmouna Doucouré.
Directed by: Maïmouna Doucouré.
Starring Sania Halifa, Oumou Sangaré, Yseult, Chanchal Chowdhury, Thomas Pesquet.
World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022.
US Premiere at The American French Film Festival 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime release.|
Hawa, a 15-year-old girl with a spectacular blond afro, Coke-bottle glasses, and an innate disregard for convention, is not your typical Parisian teen. Maminata, her beloved grandmother and sole guardian, is terminally ill and doesn’t have long to live. But she still hasn’t found a family to take in her soon-to-be orphaned granddaughter. So Hawa comes up with the perfect solution herself. Michelle Obama is visiting Paris and has publicly expressed how much she misses her daughters, now that they’ve grown-up and moved out. Obviously, the Obamas should adopt Hawa. Now she just has to convince the former First Lady.