Départ

54 mins | India | 2026 | French, English, and Hindi, with English Subtitles Mahé is a small, former French colony on the Malabar Coast of India. It carries a layered history shaped by colonial encounters, migration, language, memory, and cultural exchange. The film asks what remains of the French presence in Mahé today, through honest conversations, surreal landscapes and lived experiences. Why do colonial histories continue to inhabit everyday life long after political rule has ended? Départ is an attempt to understand what remains when an entire chapter of history has passed, and what is qui