Rainbow Ceiling
Martin Meissonnier
2011 - 52 min - HD - Couleur - France

When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, it brought young politicians of immigrant extraction across Europe a powerful hope for their future.
This film tells the stories of the young generation of elected minority leaders in France. Their political opinions are varied and their outlook and experience contradicts the cliché bad rep of France’s suburbs.
But there is a problem : The ethnic diversity of the population is barely represented in Parliament. These young elected officials will encounter people like them who have succeeded in breaking through. In the United States, they meet the legendary political strategists who brought Obama to the White House.
Will these young men and women from contrasting backgrounds make it into the tight little world of political insiders?