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Göteborg International Film Festival Fund är en unik fond som stödjer filmproduktion och utveckling av filmlivet i utvecklingsländer. Fonden, som finaniseras av SIDA, har i dagsläget stöttat/bidragit med stöd till omkring 100 enskilda filmprojekt och ett stort antal utbildningsprojekt över hela världen.

Trapped Dream

Senegal

Director: Ubaka Joseph Ugochukwu  
Production Company: Karr Resources Films

A true-life story of the illegal immigration of African youths to the western world through the “devil’s alternative root”. A young Nigerian boy, Chike, embarks on a journey to Europe by road. But upon his arrival in Dakar, Senegal, he is swindled of his money and gets stranded. Highly determined to forge ahead with his dream, but in the process of trying to locate the -swindler, Chike gets himself arrested. After his release from prison, he meets a guy called Old Soldier, who introduces him to drug dealing.

In the course of time, he starts dating a young Senegalese girl called Amy. But when she discovers that Chike is into drug business she decides to dump him, since she doesn’t want to bring a bad name to her family. Chike is now faced with the choice of quitting his drug business or loosing his relationship. Quitting the drug business means facing death as no quitter ever lives to tell the story. Chike stands before a tuff decision. Trapped Dream is a very urgent film dealing with the pressing issues of the future of Africa and the relations between Europe and Africa.

Director Biography

Ubaka Joseph Ugochukwu was born Born in Enugu, Nigeria. He studied political science at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. After his graduation he moved to Lagos – the heart of home video production in Nigeria. In 1999 he and another young Pan African filmmaker in Dakar, Senegal, created a legal film association called Filmi Gët, and they started to produce films. In 2000 he directed his first short, Jungle Juctice, and in 2003 his first documentary, L’homme d’gardio. Trapped Dream is Ugochukwu’s feature debut.

“Since the 1930’s, the dream of African youths is to immigrate to the western world in search of greener pasture or fabled Golden Fleece. This dream, over the past two decades has unfortunately taken a dangerous and frightful dimension. The youths who are the leaders of tomorrow seem no longer to believe in the glorious future of Africa their motherland.”
Ubaka Joseph Ugochukwu