Swimming Away
Synopsis
Sarah can’t cope with answering the telephone. She has lost her baby. Lying beside the empty cradle, she responds to nothing… But suddenly, when dipping her finger in a glass of water, she realizes that she can be transported into an unfamiliar undersea world. She is the only person to believe in her strange powers and decides to give herself over to them completely.
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- Executive Producer : La fémis
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- Screenwriter : Julia Lowy
- Director of Photography : Matthieu-David Cournot
- Music Composer : Oliver Probst
- Editor : Svetlana Vaynblat
- Sound recordists : Loïc Pommiès, Jean-Baptiste Haehl
- Voice-overs : Philippe Noiret, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh
- Sound Editor : Loïc Pommiès
- Sound Mixer : Grégoire Bourdeuil
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Fantasy
- Themes : Ocean, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- Runtime : 11 min
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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