Eat Bitter

Eat Bitter (2023)

A local construction worker and a Chinese engineer are assigned to build a bank in the Central African Republic. But time and resources are scarce, there are rumours of civil war – and their personal lives are not going too well either.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2023-03-21
  • User Rating: 2/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 33min
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  • Production Company: Kea-Kwis Productions
  • Production Country: Central African Republic, United States of America
  • Directors: Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, Ningyi Sun.
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Summary

A local construction worker and a Chinese engineer are assigned to build a bank in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world. But time is short and resources are scarce, and there are rumours in the countryside that a new civil war is brewing. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, their relationships to their wives are falling apart. ‘Eat Bitter’ mirrors the existential and mundane problems of the two men, while an unlikely friendship and mutual trust blossoms between them. However, the chaotic microcosm of the construction site also mirrors China’s contradictory role in 21st century Africa, with the bank itself as the ultimate symbol of money, power and illusion. Director duo Pascale Appora-Gnekindy and Ningyi Sun themselves represent each of the two cultures, and their film has a unique eye for the human fallibility and irony of it all, but also for how we can reach each other despite all our many differences.

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Directing Pascale Appora-Gnekindy Director
Directing Ningyi Sun Director
Production Mathieu Faure Executive Producer
Camera Orphee Zaza Emmanuel Bamoy Director of Photography
Production Pascale Appora-Gnekindy Co-Producer
Writing Ningyi Sun Writer
Production Orphee Zaza Emmanuel Bamoy Co-Producer
Writing Mathieu Faure Writer
Sound Cal Freundlich Moore Original Music Composer
Production Mathieu Faure Producer
Production Steve Dorst Executive Producer
Sound Aaron Koyassoukpengo Sound
Editing Mathieu Faure Editor
Sound Cal Freundlich Moore Music
Editing Hannah Choe Editor
Production Ningyi Sun Co-Producer
Sound Thomas Boa Music
Writing Pascale Appora-Gnekindy Writer

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