A writer vs. a 40-year dictatorship — and the dictator's son owns a $100 million art collection.
The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a hunger strike denouncing the crimes of the dictatorship. Since then, he has lived in Spain, feeling that, despite the risks, he must return and fight the monster with words.
Direction
Serena lets Ávila Laurel's words carry every frame.
Production
Rare access inside one of Africa's most closed regimes.
Director
Marc Serena
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