France / Apr 09, 2025
18min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
While on vacation in Bordeaux, four-year-old Lili and her brothers, aged nine and twenty, are left to fend for themselves when their flamboyant mother goes home to her restaurant-disco business in Gabon without them. Torn between the desire to return to her lost paradise and the duty to seize the chance to make her mother proud, Lili grows up developing strategies to survive, find success, and return to the bright lights of her native Africa.
Main cast
Genres
Drama
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | C’était Bien |
| Original language | FR |
| Production countries | Senegal, France |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Maneki Films, Messina Films |
| Official site | lightsonfilm.com |
| Release date | 9 aprile 2025 |
| Production | Didar Domehri, Adrio Guarino |
| Writer | Linda Lô |
| Editing | Julie Lena, Vincent Amor |
| Cinematography | Plume Fabre, Axel Ginolin, Emma Dewolf |
| Assistant directors | Linda Lô, Estelle Bonnet-Gérard |
| Camera operators | Axel Ginolin, Plume Fabre, Emma Dewolf |
| Additional photography | Plume Fabre, Axel Ginolin, Emma Dewolf |
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| Production design | Carmela DuPort |
| Art direction | Carmela DuPort |
| Set decoration | Carmela DuPort |
| Music | Korbinska Anna Anka, Baptiste Waneukem |
| Sound | Korbinska Anna Anka, Baptiste Waneukem |
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