6:30pm
The first guests arrive with the scent of fresh popcorn finishing to be placed in their personalized Yawy’s boxes.
The back room now looks like a little secret cinema coming straight from a Wong-Kar Wai movie.
Yawy is getting ready as he puts on his t-shirt « Who You « designed by Wanderkid while more and more people arrive.

8:00pm
The first screening starts with a few delay. You can’t add another soul in the room. From outside you can hear joyful exclamations, laughs, applauses during the speech and the 25mn of the documentary.

And the same thing happens with every screening again, and again and… again until 11:30pm. Some even come out with tears in their eyes as they were inspired by what they just witnessed inside.

00:00am
It’s time to blow the 26 candles of the custom made cake of Yawy in an ultra packed Wukong. The DJ sets curated by the star of the night himself can start, while people cue up to sign a giant fake wedding cake made as a guest book.

"I’m not just a DJ"

To understand Yawy is to look beyond the surface - past the sound, the style, the shine - and into the quiet engine that drives it all.

There’s a certain flair, even flamboyance, in how he carries himself. But what stays with you isn’t how loud he looks. It’s how quiet he feels. There’s a stillness under the surface. A kind ofen flamboyance, in how he carries himself. But what stays with you isn’t how loud he looks. It’s how quiet he feels. There’s a stillness under the surface. A kind of clarity that doesn’t shout.

Ask him who he is, and the labels DJ or model emerge but feel borrowed, like incomplete chapters of a larger story. The word that lands with the most confidence is hustler. The word comes not from a desire for self-promotion but from a deep sense of intentionality. His hustle isn’t frantic or performative; it’s a steady current, a deliberate effort moving toward something greater than individual acclaim. It’s a subtle force fueling vision and community.

This all began in Vernon, a small, slow town nestled in the French countryside. Growing up there means cultivating an inner world vibrant enough to outpace the quiet repetition of the surroundings. When the external world feels limited, we are compelled to create expansive internal landscapes. Perhaps this is a universal truth for those from « slow » places: that the stillness around us can birth the loudest dreams.When you grow up somewhere slow, you become the motion. You learn to imagine hard. You make color where there’s none or not enough. You dream big enough to crack the silence.

But Yawy is not a creature of impulse. His precision, his discipline, contradict the myth of the spontaneous creative genius waiting for inspiration to strike. He writes things down. He plans. He embraces structure not as a cage but as a foundation, a steadying force in the chaos of ambition.

Focus for him is not a trendy buzzword but the lifeline that keeps his dream from drifting into abstraction.

"I just took another L, that’s a Lesson"

And then there’s the delicate balance he embodies: the place « at the intersection of dreaming and doing ». To dream without action is idle fantasy; to act without vision is mere motion. Yawy’s story invites us to reflect on our own lives: how often do we align our dreams with disciplined doing? How often do we sustain that balance long enough for transformation to take root?

Yet, as much as his craft defines him, it’s his collective that truly grounds him. His expansive sense of family - those who hold him accountable, reflect his truth, and amplify his clarity - reminds us that none of us build in isolation. There is power in community, especially in spaces where minorities don’t have to shrink, translate, or justify their existence. Through Dimension [Klub], his collective, Yawy creates such spaces. Not just art, but belonging, exhale, liberation.

His openness about failure, quoting Skepta’s « I just took another L that’s a lesson », is a testament to resilience as a practice, not a moment. We often fear loss or misstep, but Yawy reframes it as guidance, a necessary part of the journey. He doesn’t get lost without consequence; he listens, recalibrates, and moves forward with intention.

This documentary doesn’t capture a sprint toward success; it shows a young visionary moving at his own pace: anchored, intentional, becoming who he’s always been. Someone protecting his peace while dreaming big. Someone who knows the fragility of good energy and surrounds himself accordingly. Someone who values health and longevity for his collective.

At the end of the day, Yawy isn’t just a flamboyant DJ. He’s a figure of quiet realism, profoundly rooted, moved not just by a dream but by the conscious decision to turn that dream into a goal. His story challenges us to reconsider what it means to hustle, to lead, and to build; not for applause, but for lasting change.

"YEAAAAAAAAAAAH"

We met Yawy in January during a shooting produced and shot by Wanderkid with Levi’s.

On both side we felt we were speaking the same language and sharing the same kind of energies with the will to go further and deep dive into his personal story.

After several weeks of setting up the details, we followed him for a week cut in several sessions of filming between March and May. All of the spots were selected by Yawy because of the meanings and the stories told through them.