Premiered at the Doc Aviv Festival in 2008, the film was later screened on Israel's Channel 2, Channel 10, as well as at various festivals in the USA and Canada.
Aziz Diouf Lati’s father arrived in Israel from Senegal as a migrant worker seventeen years ago. Irena, Lati’s mother made Aliya to Israel from Belarus fifteen years ago. Eight-year-old Lati is a just another western Israeli teenager, He loves McDonald’s, a fan of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, and speaks Hebrew exclusively. One afternoon Lati’s life changes dramatically when his father tells him that he is a decedent of a long-ruling Senegalese royal dynasty. The father dreams one day his boy will rule the Serer tribe, counting over a million people. Aziz encourages Lati to take on his role as a tribal king in order to “save the tribe and lead the people back to greatness”.
Credits
Writer and Director | Uri Bar-on
Production | Kobi Zaig and Uri Bar-on.
Cinematographer and Co-creator | Kobi Zaig
Editor | Lavi Ben Gal
Sound Editor | Aviv Aldema
Original score | Ophir Leibovitch
Funding | Sharon Amrani fund, Channel 2 Authority,
Gesher fund, Mark Rich foundation, Makor fund.