Synopsis
Amal is a 12-year-old girl who lives in the Moroccan countryside. Each day she gets up at dawn and walks with her brother to the village school situated several miles from their farm. A serious and dedicated pupil, Amal dreams of becoming a doctor - until the day her parents decide she will no longer be attending school.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Divine Productions
- Foreign production company : Agora Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Pablo Mehler
- Screenwriter : Ali Benkirane
- Director of Photography : Georges Diane
- Editor : Thomas Courcelle
- Sound Recordist : Guillaume Le Braz
- Costume designer : Emma Bellocq
- Foreign producers : Souad Lamriki, Bénédicte Bellocq
- Production Designer : Laurent Allaire
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Fate, Childhood
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : France, Morocco
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Morocco)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 16 min 59 seconds
- Visa number : 110.127
- Visa issue date : 03/11/2004
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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