Synopsis
The Institute Les Sources welcomes teenagers between thirteen and twenty-one years old. Fanny, Maxime, Jennifer, Samuel, Diego, Cindy are mentally handicapped persons. The friendship, love, sexuality, music, the conflict with their parents, the relationship with authority, projections into the future arise for them as for any teenager, with the responsibility of the handicap. For them, the reality is normal. As normal as that of the adults who supervise them and try to help them to imagine themselves out of thehandicap which does not define them. How to escape this and to invent a life?
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Sauvages
Full credits (5)
- Executive Producer : Anne-Catherine Witt
- Director of Photography : Mathieu Vadepied
- Editor : Christine Benoît
- Sound Editor : Julien Ngo-Trong
- Sound Mixer : Xavier Marsais
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Handicap, Adolescence
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 53 min
- Visa number : 127.157
- Visa issue date : 21/09/2011
- Production formats : DV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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