Shaping up to be one of our most anticipated feature directorial debuts of 2027, Mathieu Volpe‘s transition into fiction arrives with an exceptional producing team behind him and an exciting cast of new faces performers poised to bring his vision to the screen. The Cineuropa folks report that L’Or Rouge will find Souleymane’s Story‘s Abou Sangaré, Io Capitano‘s Seydou Sarr with Fatou Hane as the film’s lead. Producers include Les Films du Fleuve’s Delphine Tomson and the Dardenne Bros with Les Films de Pierre’s Marie-Ange Luciani. Production begins next week Bari, Italy. In his shorts and only feature docu, Volpe has explored migration, undocumented workers being caught between countries, cultures, and identities.
This focuses on the journey of Mariama (Fatou Hane), a 45-year-old Senegalese woman who arrives in a ghetto of agricultural workers in southern Italy. She claims to be looking for work but, in reality, she’s searching for a missing person…
