Kouté Vwa

This film benefited from the support of the Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in the framework of the aid to light production. This is how Maxime Jean-Baptiste came to participate in the workshop Scénario : puissance & âme of Groupe Ouest Développement in 2021 to work on the script of his first feature film “Kouté Vwa / Listen to the Voices”.

Synopsis

Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, French Guiana. His presence and his desire to learn how to play the drum bring back the specter of Lucas, Nicole’s son, also a drummer, who tragically died 11 years earlier. Faced with the grief that haunts his family and Lucas’s best friend’s desire for revenge, Melrick seeks his own path to forgiveness.