Synopsis
How can you tell your mother that last night you did not spend your time revising for your exams, but at the police station in a cell under custody, and that the doors of this cell opened when the exams had already started about thirty minutes earlier and that the examiner was not accommodating.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : La Vie est Belle
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Christophe Delsaux
- Screenwriter : Sylvain Labrosse
- Director of Photography : Jean-Philippe Bouyer
- Music Composer : Pascal Bricard
- Editor : Khadicha Bariha-Simsolo
- Sound Recordist : Xavier Piroelle
- Continuity supervisor : Ariane Billy
- Production designers : Virginie Brien, Florence De La Mardière
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2001
- Runtime : 30 min
- Visa number : 99.931
- Visa issue date : 12/12/2001
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)