The Botanist

Director: Floriane Zoundi

Burkina Faso, 2022

9 minutes

A specialist in tropical plants, Rayann, 32, is a brilliant scientist who has had an exemplary career. But he loses his family in a terrorist attack. Since then, Rayann has lived away from the world until the day he is taken hostage in his house by terrorists pursued by the authorities.

Out of survival instinct, he plans to neutralize them using his knowledge of plants.