‘Fauda’ Star Laëtitia Eïdo to Lead Alia Azamat Ashkenazi’s Historical Drama ‘Children of Nowhere’ (Exclusive)

French actress Laëtitia Eïdo, whose credits include “Fauda,” “Liaison” and “Elyas,” has signed on to star in the upcoming feature film “Children of Nowhere” as a civil servant dispatched to enforce a controversial French relocation program on Réunion Island in the 1960s. The film is inspired by true events.

Directed by Alia Azamat Ashkenazi, a two-time United Nations Award winner, the film explores the haunting legacy of a real-life government scheme that displaced thousands of children from La Réunion to rural France under false pretenses.

Set across two timelines in the 1960s and the 1980s, the story follows Nathan, a young ex-con who returns to the island in search of the parents who gave him away as well as Chantal, his orphaned girlfriend and a fellow victim of the program, now working on an exposé to uncover its disturbing truths. Eïdo’s character Briance is the French official who once…