“Neither chains nor masters”, the slave revolt
At the Deauville Festival, director Simon Moutaïrou was accompanied by his actors, Ibrahima Mbaye, Anna Diakhere Thiandoum, and Benoît Magimel. “It’s a film about a forgotten page in French history,” says director Simon Moutaïrou, who has shot a historical and necessary French western to ‘raise awareness’. An educational film about slavery in Mauritius. While American…