Synopsis
Kenji is eight years old when his parents are murdered right before his eyes. We find him twelve years later, still fleeing oppression and misery along with a group of ten other people. They are on their way to Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Northern Morocco. Multiple trajectories, shattered destinies, but always driven by the same hope, no matter the cost, to break through the barbed wire of Europe and to find freedom.
Credits
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Actors (6)
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- Executive Producer : Cine sur Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Laurent Cavalier
- Screenwriter : Sacha Chelli
- Director of Photography : David Hadjadj
- Music Composer : Étienne Forget
- Editors : Sacha Chelli, Katya Chelli
- Sound Recordist : Alexandre Andrillon
- Sound Editor : Olivier Lafuma
- Production Designer : Denis Lourenço
- Music performer : Fatou Mata Diawara
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Lafuma
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Politics, Immigration
- Production language : French, Arabic, African dialect
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 24 min 30 seconds
- Visa number : 116.832
- Visa issue date : 11/04/2007
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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