Synopsis
Dakar in Senegal. Fatima is a young girl, she's 8. She wonders while she opens the fridge if light stays on once the fridge door is closed. She finds out that the light is off. So Fatima goes out, closes her eyes, opens them, closes them again. Do people still exist when their eyes are shut?
Credits
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Actors (5)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Mille et Une Productions
- Foreign production company : Ika 964
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producers : Édouard Mauriat, Anne-Cécile Berthomeau
- Screenwriter : Alain Gomis
- Director of Photography : Aurélien Devaux
- Music Composers : Constance Barres, Patrice Gomis
- Editor : Fabrice Rouaud
- Sound recordists : Alioune Mbow, Bruno Reiland
- Costume designer : Thiaw Passendy
- Foreign Producer : Éric Idriss Kanago
- Production Designer : Rackie Diankha
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Social comedy
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : African dialect
- Coproducer countries : France, Senegal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Senegal)
- Production year : 2003
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 105.173
- Visa issue date : 13/02/2003
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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