Synopsis
Purging long punishments or imprisoned late in life, the old prisoners find themselves without any possible horizon. Into what future can they project themselves? A retirement home? A foyer? Marked by years of detention where the time freezes the spirit but counts for double for the body. They envisage with a paradoxical anxiety their liberation. To grow old in the shadows shares with us their reflections, the worlds encircled by habits that they have recreated in prison, the tenuous and deeply moving links which they have managed to maintain with the outside.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Ysé Productions / Ysé Productions Normandie
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Marie Agnely
- Screenwriters : Johanna Bedeau, Mariannick Bellot
- Director of Photography : Alexis Kavyrchine
- Editor : Julie Dupré
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Benaïm
- Sound Editor : Laurent Benaïm
- Sound mixer : Laure Arto
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary
- Themes : Freedom, Criminality, Ageing
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 58 min
- Visa number : 135.807
- Visa issue date : 25/03/2014
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)