La chute infinie des soleils

Several centuries and thousands of kilometers separate the shipwrecked crew of the frigate l'Utile and a student who seizes their story for a university project. In La chute infinie des soleils, author and director Elemawusi Agbedjidji explores the depth of trauma and the strength of hope.

In 1761, a French East India Company frigate christened l'Utile was shipwrecked on the island of Tromelin, off Madagascar. The crew set sail again on a makeshift vessel, leaving behind the men, women and children they were leading into slavery. On this hostile sandbank, only a handful of survivors survive for fifteen years, awaiting the promised rescue.

In 2023, a student takes up this story in a research-creation project that he defends before a jury of academics to question the colonial legacy today...
From archives, author and director Elemawusi Agbedjidji crosses different narratives: that of the second captain of l'Utile back in Lorient and that of a young Malagasy girl abandoned on the desert island. Questioning our relationship with colonial and post-colonial history, La chute infinie des soleils probes the human capacity to persist in hope, despite trauma, to cling to life.