Small Country: An African Childhood

Original title: Petit Pays

“When The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History”

Directed by Eric Barbier

Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.