Synopsis
While out walking, Driss finds a café run by Fouad, a strange old man, on a beach near Tanger. After several encounters, cups of tea, and pipes of kif, an ambivalent friendship is formed.
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- Executive Producer : Azilah Productions
Full credits (9)
- Adaptation : Mohamed Ulad Mohand, Cécile Vargaftig
- Screenwriters : Mohamed Ulad Mohand, Cécile Vargaftig
- Director of photography : Diane Baratier
- Music Composer : Mohammed Rouicha
- Editor : Michel Klochendler
- Sound Recordist : Didier Saïn
- Costume designer : Reine Grave
- Authors of original work : Mohamed Mrabet, Paul Bowles
- Production Designer : Olivier Jacquet
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- Runtime : 24 min 16 seconds
- Visa number : 95.645
- Visa issue date : 18/12/1998
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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