Synopsis
Près d’un baobab, une spirale est tracée au sol. Un groupe d’enfants s’assied autour. Tous s’apprêtent à jouer au jeu du Soödo (sorcier), une course poursuite contre le soleil. Personne ne veut être Soödo à la tombée de la nuit car le Soödo vit la nuit.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Écouter Jouer
- Foreign production company : Diam Production
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Françoise Soavi
- Screenwriter : Michel K. Zongo
- Director of Photography : Michel K. Zongo
- Music Composers : Tim Winsey, Jules Merleau-Ponty
- Editor : Annie Lemesle
- Sound Recordist : Moumoumi Jupiter Sodré
- Executive Producer : Françoise Soavi
- Production manager : Françoise Soavi
- Sound Editor : Williams Schmit
- Special Effects : Gérard Delplanque
- Sound mixers : Williams Schmit, Gabriel Mathé
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Fairy tale, Legend
- Themes : Childhood, Youth, Education
- Production language : Mooré
- Coproducer countries : France, Burkina Faso
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Burkina Faso)
- Production year : 2015
- Runtime : 10 min 48 seconds
- Visa number : 141.579
- Visa issue date : 02/04/2015
- Production formats : XDCamEX
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)