Ten years after winning the award for best director for "Exils", Tony Gatlif returns to the Cannes film festival with his new film «Geronimo».
After attending the Un certain regard section in 1993 with the documentary "Latcho Drom" and surprising everyone with "Exils" in 2004, a film that won him the award for best director, Tony gatlif returns to the French competition for one of the s special screenings.
The French director of Gypsy and Algerian descent re-explores, as is usual in his cinema, his gypsy roots. "Geronimo" is a reinterpretation of the Shakespearean classic "Romeo AND Juliet»Brought to modern times.
«Geronimo»Tells the story of Gemma, a young woman raised by gypsies who comes urgently to try to calm down the disturbances in the Saint-Pierre neighborhood where the Turkish community and the Roma community are at odds. There Gemma, with the help of her old love Orange, a neighborhood educator, will try to save Nil and Lucky, two teenagers in love, she a Turkish and he a gypsy, who have fled the reprisals of her brother, a rapper known as « L'Electrique ».
They star in the film Celine Sallette, seen in "Rust and Bone", the newcomer Rachid yous y David murgia, seen in the Belgian film "Bullhead".