Henri-François Imbert

As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Twenty years later, he went in search of the missing cards.

As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Twenty years later, he went in search of the missing cards.

It is June. The rainy season begins in Mali. Henri-Francois Imbert arrives in Bamako. He is looking for his friend Doulaye Danioko.

France’s Henri-Francois Imbert is a constant presence in his short film Sur la plage de Belfast – both in voice-over and on-camera. His mission is to track down the family that he found captured on a roll of Super-8 film in a used camera.