Eldorado (2018)
Enormous emotional energy. CORRIERE DELA SERA (ITALY), Paolo Mereghetti
Sombre, unflinching and personal […] Markus Imhoof’s Eldorado is a deeply felt documentary essay on Europe’s refugee question. The Guardian (UK)
Enormous emotional energy. CORRIERE DELA SERA (ITALY), Paolo Mereghetti
Sombre, unflinching and personal […] Markus Imhoof’s Eldorado is a deeply felt documentary essay on Europe’s refugee question. The Guardian (UK)
After his commitment as a producer, most notably to African cinema and some of his greatest titles (Yaaba, Laafi, Hyenas), the Jura native, Pierre-Alain Meier picks up the camera to confront both his career trajectory and his demons. He returns to Senegal to investigate a European woman who was found dead in 2009; the only white body among the corpses of black migrants washed up on a beach. FRIBOURG INT. FILM FESTIVAL, Thierry Jobin
This wicked tale, told with wit and irony has the ingredients of a crowed-pleaser.
VILLAGE VOICE
Hyenas is the most exhilarating mix of exotica, comedy and tragedy since 1959’s Black Orpheus. NEW YORK POST, Larry Worth
In Hyenas, Djibril Diop Mambety’s pungent adaptation of the „Visit“, the setting has been moved from Europe to Africa. Although the film, keeps the outlines of the Dürrenmatt play intact, the change of locale lends the tale a new political dimension.
NEW YORK TIMES, Stephen Holden