The Healer
2016
United States
15 mins
English, French
NYC Premiere
Short Film Competition
| Jaime Mateus-Tique | |
| Luc Bossi | |
| Souleymane Sy Savane, Idrissa Mbaye, Kristin Slaysman, Ellie Foumbi |
Jacob, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast in his early forties, is the manager of a trendy New York bar. Having surrendered to the fast and easy life of the megalopolis, he womanizes freely using his charm and a fantasized notion of his power as a traditional African ‘healer’. When Stacy asks Jacob to help Daniel, the tormented son of her friend Alima, also an immigrant from Ivory Coast, Jacob reluctantly agrees. Jacob and Daniel embark on a journey through the streets of Manhattan. They have difficulty dealing with each other at first. But as their urban adventure continues – evoking the odyssey of a father and son – Jacob and Daniel manage to understand each other and exorcise the most intimate pains of their pasts.
About the Director
Jaime Mateus-Tique is a New York-based film producer, writer and director working in independent world cinema. He has produced eight feature films in France, Nepal and Argentina, including ‘Entre Les Bras’ (2012), ‘La Tercera Orilla’ (2014) and ‘Madame Bovary’ (2015) starring Mia Wasikowska. His most recent productions are Julia Solomonoff’s’ Nobody’s Watching’ (2016) and Deepak Rauniyar’s ‘White Sun’ (2016). As a writer, he has credit on the French comedy ‘Theoreme de la Chieuse’.
