KHAMSA

FRANCE Director: KARIM DRIDI 2008 / 110 min. / French version WITH CZECH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES Cast: Marc Cortes, Raymond Adam, Tony Fourmann, Mehdi Laribi, Simon Abkarian

After fleeing from his foster family, Marco, who is called Khamsa, returns to the gypsy camp where he was born eleven years ago. Nothing seems to have changed since he was forced to leave; the late night card games, the diving in the Mediteranean Sea, the rooster fights …
Marco is home again. Until his best friend, Coyote, meets Rachitique, who is a small time crook with whom they start petty robberies. Marco’s youth and innocence will rapidly fade away as he spirals down into delinquency…