SEX, OKRA & SALTED BUTTER

  • Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
  • Fiction
  • 2007
  • 1h21

Hortense, a 40-year old nurse originally from the Ivory Coast, leaves her family for her lover, Jean-Paul, an oyster farmer in the area of Bordeaux. Her husband, a macho, very traditional man, sees his whole world turn upside down. Suddenly, he Þnds himself raising their two younger children on his own, and, to his horror, discovers that his third son, a handsome young man, is homosexual. The arrival of beautiful Amina, the lonely neighbor, and of Malik’s sisters in law from Adidjan, provokes some surprising twists.

Screenplay
  • Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
  • Marc Gautron
  • Isabelle Boni Claverie
Photography
  • François Kuhnel
Sound
  • Dana Farzanehpour
Set design
  • Boubacar Seck
  • Antoine Belvisotti
  • Charlee Charni
Costumes
  • Céline Delaire
  • Michèle Gingembre
  • Bouna Médoune Seye
Editing
  • Marie-Hélène Dozo
Production
  • Agat Films
  • Nicolas Blanc
Coproduction
  • ARTE FRANCE
  • TABO TABO FILMS
Distribution Doc & Films International
International seller Doc & Films International