Trailer Watch: Clarisse Albrecht Goes on the Run in Dominican Republic’s Oscar Entry “Bantú Mama”

The trailer for the Dominican Republic’s Oscar submission, “Bantú Mama,” has arrived. The drama tells the story of Emma (Clarisse Albrecht), a French girl of African descent who’s on the run and making an attempt to elude Dominican authorities after narrowly escaping arrest. “If you happen to assist me, I’ll enable you,” she’s informed by a younger lady bargaining for mutual safety and survival in probably the most harmful district of Santo Domingo.

Emma is ultimately taken in by a bunch of three kids who information her as their protégée in trade for performing as a maternal determine to them, inflicting “her future [to] change inexorably,” the movie’s synopsis teases.

The trailer exhibits Emma’s duality as a legal fugitive pushed by a survival crucial and a nurturing mentor to the members of her discovered household. We see her a caressing a toddler’s head as the 2 gaze on the reflection within the mirror. “Highly effective. Like a queen,” she tells the lady. 

Along with headlining, Albrecht co-wrote the screenplay of “Bantú Mama” and co-produced the mission with director Ivan Herrera. 

Albrecht beforehand appeared in “The Lengthy Music,” a BBC interval drama a couple of girl navigating the trials and tribulations of Nineteenth-century Jamaica in its last days of slavery.

“Bantú Mama” premiered at this 12 months’s SXSW Movie Competition. Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing is bringing it to pick out theaters and Netflix November 17.