The President
Brussels Film Festival | Panorama Masters
The story follows a fallen autocrat and his grandson fleeing murderous revolutionaries bent on vengeance. The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives of luxury and leisure at the expense of their population's misery. A coup d'état overthrows his brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane. Now the President is the country most wanted fugitive with a bounty on his head. Posing as street musicians and traveling together with the people who suffered for years under the dictatorship, the fallen President and the innocent child will be exposed first hand to the hardships that inspired unanimous hatred for the regime.
Flagey, Brussels Film Festival