THE LAST SHIP
Un long-métrage documentaire de Fabienne Kanor
On the reddish-ochre beach of Ouidah, metres of construction fences line up. Once a place of deportation to the New World for thousands of chained Africans, the historic town is now undergoing a major transformation. By 2025, a string of new hotels, a marina, a museum on slavery and a life-size slave ship to visit, called the “Departure Boat”, will rise from the old sand. On this blood-ochre beach from which my ancestors were torn, I film the disfiguration of the Beninese city and try to collect the last traces of my people.
With the support of
Diversity Image Fund (CNC)
The New Aquitaine region
The territorial collectivity of Martinique
The Museum of Aquitaine
In partnership with
Institute of Africa (IdAf)