Synopsis
One evening, Manuel, a forty-year-old man who thinks his missed his life, decides to finish it. Regrettably for him, Alex, a teenager, choses the same hour and the same place to commit suicide. How to decide on whom has the priority? Which of them have the best reasonsto die? Both trie as they can to convince the other one. But at the in fact, do Manuel and Alex really want to die?
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- Foreign production company : ECAL - École cantonale d'art de Lausanne
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- Screenwriter : Raphaël Rivière
- Director of Photography : Éric Walther
- Music Composers : Jules Négrier, Léo Bourcart
- Editor : Raphaël Rivière
- Sound Recordist : Adrien Bordone
- Foreign producer : Rachel Noël
- Producer : Raphaël Rivière
- Production manager : Rachel Noël
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Suicide, Encounters, The absurd
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Switzerland, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Switzerland, France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 10 min 7 seconds
- Production formats : XDCamEX
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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