

Tropic of Violence
Director: Manuel Schapira
Screenwriters: Manuel Schapira, Delphine de Vigan
Producer: Carole Lambert
DoP: Benoit Soler
Editor: Lilian Corbeille
Cast: Gilles-Alane Ngalamou Hippocrate, Céline Sallette, Dali Benssalah, Fazal Bacar-Moilim
2022 | French | 93 Mins | Colour
Moses was an infant when he was brought illegally to Mayotte, a French overseas island. Raised by a French nurse, he is now a 13-year-old boy feared by some locals because he has different colored eyes, what they call the ‘eyes of the devil’. Upon his mother’s sudden death and fearing deportation, he joins the slums where dozens of kids live on their own. Following Bruce, the tyrannical leader of the gang, Moses must adopt their codes in order to survive.
Manuel Schapira (b. 1972, Paris) studied Philosophy at the Sorbonne, and Film at the Ecole Louis Lumière, where he specialised in Cinematography. Since 1997 he has worked as a cinematographer and director. He is also an actor, a writer and known for ‘Damoclès’ (2016), ‘The Hounds (2012)’ and ‘La fille de l’homme’ (2010).