Name: Telescope Film
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A young boy from a rural Senegalese village travels 387 km to the capital city, Dakar, to meet his hero, a famous French actor named Seydou Tall, who decides to accompany him home. The bond that develops between the boy and the man grows deep along their journey, into a surrogate father-son relationship.

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Cineuropa by Fabien Lemercier

[The film] makes no secret of its benevolent intentions, accessible to a large audience thanks to an uplifting humanist message that avoids slipping into something more downbeat, or into a simple tourist trip to Senegal.