Synopsis
Set in the near future, employees at the multicultural corporation Historical Works are forced to take a seminar aimed at improving their performance. The concept is a role play in which each employee must assume the role of a beggar in the Middle Ages in order to experience utter squalor and poverty.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les films du Bélier
- Foreign production company : Herma Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Justin Taurand
- Screenwriters : Ben Rivers, Gabriel Abrantes
- Director of Photography : Jorge Quintela
- Assistant Director : Natxo Checa
- Editor : Margarida Lucas
- Sound Recordist : Pedro Melo
- Foreign Producer : Gabriel Abrantes
- Production manager : Joana Botelho
- Production Designer : Marta Do Vale
- Artistic director : Ze Branco
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Science fiction
- Themes : Science fiction/Futuristic, Metamorphosis, Middle Ages
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (France, Portugal)
- Production year : 2016
- Runtime : 29 min 40 seconds
- Visa number : 145.679
- Visa issue date : 23/12/2016
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (6)
Awards (1)
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival (Lisbon)
Portugal, 2016
Prix du meilleur court-métrage compétition nationale

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