A Small Piece of Wood
Synopsis
All through a night in Cayenne, a cortege of striking students ride through the city, giving the call to demonstrate for a fully functioning university in Guiana. The words of the youth Alan, who asks for justice and respect, seem to answer those of an old man who remembers. A former teacher, Jean Mariema, sees in this new combat the specter of past struggles: those which set him in opposition to André Malraux, come to pronounce a speech in Cayenne in 1958. The voices of history and the present intertwine and soon fighting bodies unite, around a poem, around a small piece of wood.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Spectre Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Phantom
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Olivier Marboeuf
- Screenwriter : Pierre Michelon
- Director of Photography : Pierre Michelon
- Editors : Pierre Michelon, Olivier Marboeuf
- Production Manager : Olivier Marboeuf
- Sound Editor : Maxime Bichon
- Grader : Pierre-Yves Fave
- Sound Mixer : Thierry Bertomeu
- Participants : Jema Mariema, David Legrand, Allan Eraste
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental
- Production language : French, Creole
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 41 min
- Visa number : 144.951
- Visa issue date : 04/08/2017
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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