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Mia and the White Lion

Year: 2018
Country: FRANCE
Language: English
Run Time: 98 minutes

Mia refuses to assimilate to her new home in South Africa. Her family recently moved from London to return to her father’s family farm of wild lions, where they dream of a profitable tourist attraction. When the loveable white lion cub, Charlie, is born, Mia slowly warms to him, keeping him as a close house pet. The two become inseparable, and as Charlie grows larger and more destructive, Mia is the only one who can keep him under control. Mia’s father insists Charlie will always have the instincts and demeanor of a wild animal, and it’s only a matter of time before he will become a danger to Mia. When Mia discovers the fate of the lions that leave their farm, there is nothing she won’t do to save her best friend. With support from the famous South African “Lion Whisperer,” Kevin Richardson, MIA AND THE WHITE LION shares a powerful message of the crucial importance of protecting these soon-to-be endangered species before it’s too late. —A.B.

CIFF43 Screenings

Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 3:50 PM

Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 12:05 PM

This screening is on Stand By.

Sidebars
African Diaspora
Family Films
Strangers in a Strange Land

Competition
International Narrative Competition

Director
Gilles de Maistre

Gilles de Maistre straddles several different audiovisual genres and offers up his vision of the world in movie theaters and on television screens as a writer, director, producer, reporter, and general globetrotter. With hundreds of documentaries, television movies, and feature-length movies to his name, de Maistre is a multi-award-winning director who has earned The Albert Londres Prize, International Emmy Awards, seven d'or Awards, the Public Prize and Junior Prize at the Festival de Cannes, and the Special Jury Prize at the Festival de la Fiction de La Rochelle, as well as a dozen other international prizes and awards.

Filmography
Killer Kid (1994), Ferocious (2002), Le premier cri (2007), The Quest of Alain Ducasse (2017), MIA AND THE WHITE LION (2018)

Producers
Valentine Perrin, Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Elghozi, Gilles de Maistre, Stéphane Simon, Catherine Camborde

Screenwriting
Prune de Maistre, William Davies

Cinematography
Brendan Barnes

Editing
Julien Rey

Principal Cast
Mélanie Laurent, Daniah De Villiers, Langley Kirkwood, Ryan Mac Lennan

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Ledafilms Entertainment Group

http://ledafilms.com

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Mia and the White Lion

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