FEVERS (FIÈVRES)

SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIERE
At only thirteen, Benjamin is a little soldier at war with life, with adults and with himself. He is a troubled kid with a tormented soul and goes back and forth into foster homes since the age of five. Eventually, his mother goes to jail and reveals to Benjamin the existence of his father. For Benjamin there is just one goal; getting out of foster care. So when the social worker gave him the choice, he decides to go live at this unknown father’s place.

DIRECTOR BIO
Hicham Ayouch was born in Paris to a French mother and Moroccan father. A former journalist, he worked in television before becoming a writer and film director. He has made two feature documentaries, The King's Queens, about the status of the women in Morocco and Angel's Dust, about autistic teenagers. His two previous fiction features were Heart Edges and Fissures.