Synopsis
Damascus, Syria. A mother prepares her five-year-old, deaf and dumb son, to go out of her room to venture outside and learn to manage to understand the world. But it is finally the child who teaches to his mother the value of silence.
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Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de Zayna
- Co-production : Sombrero Films
- Foreign production company : Synéastes Films
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Palmyre Badinier
- Screenwriters : Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf
- Director of Photography : Luca Casavola
- Editor : Enrica Gattolini-Ordonneau
- Sound Recordist : Paul Maernoudt
- Line Producer : Nicolas Leprêtre
- Co-producers : Thomas Verhaeghe, Alain Benguigui
- Production Manager : Michael Shagoury
- Sound Editor : François Fayard
- Continuity supervisor : Layla Khalaf
- Production Designer : Nour Al Nader
- Sound mixer : Laure Arto
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Minorities, Childhood, Communication
- Production language : Arabic, Sign language
- Coproducer countries : France, Syria
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Syria)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 133.346
- Visa issue date : 18/12/2012
- Production formats : HD-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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About
Adaptation from the play Deaf Day de Leslie Ayvazian.
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