Le Fils du joueur
Synopsis
When he returns to Tripoli, the city where he was born, Karim's memories flood back. Of that Sunday in September 1975 when his grandfather asked him to go to a café on the other side of town and bring his father, a big gambler, home. He was only six years old. It was just a few minutes before war broke out.
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Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : 13 Prods, Autres Rivages
- Foreign production company : Né à Beyrouth Films
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Cyrille Perez, Gilles Perez, Chantal Fischer, Karima Benouadah
- Screenwriter : Carlos Chahine
- Directors of Photography : Rachel Aoun, Pôl Seif
- Music Composer : Sharif Sehnaoui
- Assistant director : Melissa Karam
- Editor : Gladys Joujou
- Sound Recordist : Emmanuel Zouki
- Costume designer : Rime Al-Jabr
- Assistant Operators : Marie Warde, Jad Tannous, Said Al Sayed, Boudi Al Sayed
- Production manager : Stéphanie Khoury
- Sound editor : Corinne Rozenberg
- Continuity supervisor : Joyce Joumaa
- Production Designer : Rime Al-Jabr
- Make-up Artist : Leina Hallis
- Sound Mixer : Hervé Buirette
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Portrait
- Themes : Childhood, Memories, War, Games
- Production language : French, Arabic
- Coproducer countries : France, Lebanon
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Lebanon)
- Production year : 2017
- Runtime : 13 min 48 seconds
- Visa number : 147.073
- Visa issue date : 15/10/2018
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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