In early 2006, a list denouncing the purported homosexuality of 50 influential people appeared in several newspapers - a shockwave to the Cameroonian society. Homosexuality is taboo to the point that hitherto, according to public opinion :
“THERE ARE NO HOMOSEXUALS IN CAMEROON!!!”
The film offers a description of the difficult conditions sustained by this young homosexual “community” as well as the heroic fight of Alice N’Kom, lawyer for 9 imprisoned gays *A “nkuta” is a gunny sack. This expression, typically Cameroonian, makes reference to the 1980’s French expression for coming out of the closet.
“The distant colors of happiness” recounts the parallel destinies of Rodi and Deniz, both Kurd, a young man and woman that find themselves, at the end of childhood, projected out of their isolated mountains villages towards the gargantuan Istanbul. Foreigners lost in this anthill they continue to experience long years of conflict that oppose the Kurdish people and the Turkish government.
Today, whereas they are barely rising up from the trauma caused by the war and exile, they decide to forge their own paths, and not follow the ones laid out for them.
