French Guiana's film output is small but distinct, shaped by its identity as an overseas territory on the South American coast rather than a metropolitan French region. Its cinema tends to grapple with questions of isolation, colonial legacy and Amazonian geography. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
French Guiana occupies a peculiar place in the cultural imagination: an overseas territory of France, geographically part of South America, historically shaped by the brutal legacy of the penal colony at Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, and today home to communities whose lives bear little resemblance to anything you might associate
Genre Comedy
★ — Je suis un vélo (2018)
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