Synopsis
Sora, a young Romanian makes a living by cleaning the metro stations of Paris at night. She lives far away from her daughter in Romania, as whose birthday is approaching, she has to make a decision.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : La fémis
- Foreign production company : Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Full credits (16)
- Screenwriter : Martin Lecointe
- Director of Photography : Max Christmann
- Music Composers : Nicolai Krepart, Edward Fernbach
- Editor : Svenja Baumgärtner
- Sound Recordist : Lucas Doméjean
- Costume designer : Claire Binet
- Producer : Leonie Pokutta
- Assistant Operator : Julian Steiner
- Camera Operator : Julian Steiner
- Production manager : Leonie Pokutta
- Sound Editor : Denis Elmaci
- Continuity supervisor : Clémentine Concédieu
- Production Designers : Paula A. Molanos, Nelson Bechara
- Animation : Daniel Brenner
- Make-up Artist : Lola Herbinière-Sève
- Sound Mixer : Lucas Doméjean
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Bizarre
- Themes : Motherhood, Emigration, Marginality
- Production language : French, Romanian
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 2016
- Runtime : 18 min 23 seconds
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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