This is the series not to be missed in September, “Ultra loin”, a shared accommodation between Ultramarines in mainland France. Many young people from overseas come to France to study or begin their professional life every year. With humor and depth, the unprecedented mockumentary series, #Ultra loin, depicts the difficulties of remoteness, the shock of life in France, but also the joys and cultural riches shared by these young people. Discover the 8 episodes on la1ere.fr.
In a house full of charm and warmth in the Parisian suburbs, cohabit nine roommates from overseas, students or young workers. They are welcomed by Guillaume, a Reunionese. This year, friends of Guillaume have decided to shoot a documentary on this one-of-a-kind roommate…
Find the eight episodes of the series ICI.
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Showing the diversity within the overseas populations themselves is at the heart of this mockumentary (mockumentary within the fiction) of 8 twenty-minute episodes. With the mockumentary process, theThe characters are aware of the presence of cameras following them everywhere. By following our roommates on a daily basis, the mockumentary brings precious moments of complicity with the characters when they confide in front of the camera, play with the cameramen or the film crew follows them into their private lives and reveal their little secrets.
The mockumentary makes it possible to be as close as possible to the experiences of uprooting but also to the learning and development of the various protagonists by following them on a daily basis.
Showing the diversity within the Overseas populations themselves was important to the two screenwriters, Chloe Leonil and Etienne Chedeville. They have created complementary, modern and varied characters to embody the main issues of overseas youth: uprooting, cultural prejudices, racism, weight of traditions, sexuality, inter-generational relationships, work, housing…
Director Chloé Léonil gives instructions to two of the actors
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The reflection around the French identity is at the center of the series. What to do when you feel French but invisible in the eyes of France? How to find your bearings on a territory completely different from the one where you grew up? The characters will each find their own way of crossing these contradictions over the course of the series.
Originally from Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Mayotte and Tahiti and although they are put in the same basket by Guillaume’s initiative to bring them together in an exclusively overseas shared apartment, many things differentiate them. They all have the same experience, but they have very little in common (territory, culture, tradition, history, etc.) and they all have many unique features. In common, they share this feeling of being at home without ever really being in France, the distance with their family that is sometimes difficult to live with, but also the advantages of suddenly finding themselves free and independent. Each character makes it possible to show a different aspect of a migration which is certainly intra-national but which has everything of an exotic journey.
Guillaume (Frédéric Lapinsonnière), the owner stayed in France after so-called studies.
Guillaume welcomes the latest arrivals
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Laura (Olenka Ilunga) comes from Reunion with the secret objective of meeting this father she never knew.
Jordan (Giovani Mole) lost his footing in Martinique and moved away from his family after too much stupidity, his arrival in France offers him the possibility of reinventing himself and finding his way.
Emilie (Chara Afouhouye) takes advantage of the distance with her Guyanese family from whom she hides her homosexuality to live her love in the big day.
Mallory (Malaurie Lefèvre) is the only one of her siblings to study and her family places a lot of hope in her, but that does not erase or even accentuates the difficulty of living far from her family who have remained in Guadeloupe.
Amingo (Arnold Mensah) criticizes France and its relationship with the former colonies, what the Martinican experiences in France does not delight him, in particular the racism he is sometimes victim of because of his skin color – but that does not does not prevent you from making beautiful encounters.
Thibaut (Gaudéric Maléjac) he suffers: white born in Tahiti, he is not the most considered of the roommate while he seeks above all to integrate.
Shekina (Shékina Immanuelle Mangatalle-Carey) dreams of being admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique but she quickly realizes that it is a handicap not to have had the same access to the theater in Martinique as her Parisian comrades.
Ali (Houdhayfi Said Djae) et Slow down (Mahealani Amaru) are ultra-diligent students. They almost never leave the roommate in the hope of passing the medical exam.
From left to right and top to bottom: Amingo, Moeata, Jordan, Laura, Thibaut, Mallory, Shekina, Ali and Emilie
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Duration : 8 x 20 minutes
Writing : Chloé Léonil and Etienne Chédeville
Achievement : Chloe Leonil
Production : Augustin Bernard
A co-production : Black Sheep Films – Shine Fiction, with the participation of France Télévisions