Synopsis
In a near future, a new mental illness spreads across the world, provoking such a disorder of the senses that the sick are kept in isolation in a psychiatric hospital. In Brooklyn, Éric, around thirty, at night enters into a psychiatric hospital and brutally kidnaps Arnaud, one of the sick. He announces to him that he is going to take him to a school in Holande where people like him are not considered as sick.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les films du Bélier
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Justin Taurand
- Screenwriters : Olivier Séror, Vincent Poymiro
- Director of Photography : Tom Harari
- Music Composer : Sébastien Noiré
- Editor : Thomas Marchand
- Sound recordists : Pierre Bariaud, Sébastien Noiré
- Costume designer : Angélique Jacquemin
- Production manager : Claire Burnoud
- Production Designer : Jean-Charles Duboc
- Sound Mixer : Benjamin Viau
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Science fiction
- Themes : Medicine, The future, Insanity
- Production language : English, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2012
- Runtime : 30 min
- Visa number : 130.729
- Visa issue date : 30/04/2012
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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