Synopsis
Eight-year-old Toprak translates for his parents who can’t speak French. Today, he goes to the hospital with them for his mother’s second trimester ultrasound. He will be the first one to know if the twin babies are brothers or sisters.
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Actors (4)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Velvet
- Co-production : Baxter Films
- Foreign production company : YUVA Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Pierre-Louis Garnon
- Screenwriter : Onur Yağız
- Director of Photography : Laurent Navarri
- Assistant Director : Stéphane Brosseau
- Editor : Xavier Sirven
- Sound Recordist : Rémi Chanaud
- Foreign Producer : Hüseyin Aydin Gürsoy
- Co-producer : Pierre-Louis Garnon
- Assistant Operator : Quentin Guichard
- Camera Operator : Laurent Navarri
- Production Manager : Jean-Philippe Rouxel
- Sound editor : Charlotte Butrak
- Continuity supervisor : Margot Seban
- Production Designer : Apostolos Skourtis
- Visual effects : Hoël Sainleger
- Make-up Artist : Agnieszka Szumacher
- Sound Mixer : Benjamin Rosier
- Location manager : Réjane Ruby
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Themes : Family, Birth, Death
- Production language : French, Turkish
- Coproducer countries : France, Turkey
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Turkey )
- Production year : 2017
- Runtime : 11 min 21 seconds
- Visa number : 144.620
- Visa issue date : 17/11/2017
- Production formats : HD Cinemascope
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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FRENCH FESTIVALS
- Festival de Courts Métrages Ecran Libre d’Aigues-Mortes 2017
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS
- SESIFF International Extreme-Short/Short Film Competition 2017 (South Korea)
- Beirut International Film Festival 2017 (Lebanon)
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)