Before directing his first feature film,
Le Marchand de sable
, Steve Achiepo did some acting.
Not just any role since he played Youssouf Fofana in 2016 in
T
out, tout de suite
, the film by Richard Berry adapted from the novel by Morgan Sportès on the affair of the gang of barbarians.
Even before, he worked in real estate.
This son of an Ivorian father and a Guyanese mother has seen things that are not very appetizing.
This experience helped him to write the scenario of The
Sandman
and to imagine the character of Djo (Moussa Mansaly, seen in
Patients
and
Validated
).
A more or less declared delivery man, he lives with his mother in the Paris suburbs and takes his daughter to sleep every other week.
Her ex, Aurore (Ophélie Bau) is a social worker but cannot help her when her aunt (Aïssa Maïga) and her three children arrive from Côte d'Ivoire, like so many others pushed by the Gbagbo-Ouattara crisis in 2010 -2011.
Djo finds them a place through the Colonel, his employer, a guy...
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