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Petit Samedi
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Petit Samedi

Feb 24, 2020
1h 15m
★ 4.0

Overview

Damien Samedi is 43 years old. When he was a child in his Belgian village on the banks of the river Meuse, they called him the “Petit Samedi”. To his mother, Ysma, Damien is still her child, the one she never abandoned when he got caught up in drugs. A son who sought to protect his mother despite it all, a man attempting to liberate himself from his addictions and faces his past to get through.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Michigan Films
Wallonie Image Production
Take Five
RTBF

Petit Samedi Trailers

Cast

Damien Samedi

himself

Damien Samedi

Ysma Sermon-Daï

herself

Ysma Sermon-Daï

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