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Cinema: Thierry Binisti, director of the "Prix du passage"

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Thierry Binisti: "The walls can fall, from the calf where we know each other" © Sébastien Jédor / RFI

By: Sébastien Jédor Follow

The number of illegal crossings between France and the United Kingdom continues to increase, with 1,300 recorded on Monday August 22.

And reality meets fiction, at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.

Among the films in competition: 

 or how Natacha, a young French single mother in trouble, will become a ferryman with the complicity of Walid, an Iraqi exile.

For a few hundred euros, she hides migrants in the trunk of her car and embarks on a ferry.

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