Last chapter of Sylvain George’s migration trilogy heads to Cannes

The French director’s documentary Obscure Night – Ain’t I a Child? was selected for ACID, a programme of the Cannes Film Festival featuring audacious works. Sylvain George spoke to SWI swissinfo.ch as his film premiered at the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon in early April. Sylvain George, a documentary filmmaker and philosopher, concludes his Obscure Night trilogy with Ain’t I a Child?, a title borrowed from an iconic speech, Ain’t I a Woman?, by the African-American abolitionist and civil rights activist Sojourner Truth.