Synopsis
Algeria, at the height of the civil war. Fadila, a cabaret singer, fled Oran after being threatened with death by religious fundamentalists. She goes to Aubagne, near Marseille, to the home of one her female friends, but the friend no longer lives there. She then wanders in the city where she doesn't know anyone, until the day that she encounters a former legionnaire who once lived in Algeria.
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Actors (7)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Marcello Cavagna
- Screenwriter : Latifa Saïd
- Director of photography : Julia Mingo
- Music Composer : Alexandre Lessertisseur
- Assistant director : Pauline Pello
- Editor : Florian Coulouma
- Sound Recordist : Étienne Bellière
- Costume designer : Latifa Saïd
- Assistant Operator : Alice Rebetez
- Camera Operator : Maxime Lebas
- Production managers : Sebastien Kubiak, Lorraine Guillon
- Sound Editor : Thibaut Dupuis
- Continuity supervisor : Vinciane Aube-Harket
- Production Designer : Béatrice Ferrand
- Make-up Artist : Stéphanie Colin
- Sound Mixer : Maxime Cordon
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Portrait
- Themes : Freedom, Exile, Exodus, Wandering
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2016
- Runtime : 29 min 45 seconds
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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