Synopsis
One day Ahmed, employed at the public baths and nearing retirement, encounters Mike, a teenager adrift. Between the bath house walls, in a place on the point of disappearing, a strange relationship will develop between these two fractured souls.
Credits
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Actors (5)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : offshore
- Film exports/foreign sales : Manifest, L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Rafael Andrea Soatto
- Screenwriter : Foued Mansour
- Director of photography : Pascale Marin
- Music Composer : Abdelkader Chaou
- Editor : Yannis Polinacci
- Sound Recordist : Stéphane Gessat
- Costume designer : Alexis Vérité
- Associate producers : Emmanuelle Latourrette, Fabrice Préel-Cléach
- Production manager : Clara González
- Sound Editor : Renaud Bajeux
- Production Assistant : Laëtitia Denis
- Continuity supervisor : Anissa Cherfaoui
- Production Designer : Dalil Ouali
- Make-up Artist : Marjorie Boiste
- Sound Mixer : Niels Barletta
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Encounters, Work, Society, Youth
- Production language : French, Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 30 min
- Visa number : 148.501
- Visa issue date : 01/03/2019
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
News (9)
Selections (17)
Awards (6)
International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA)
Canada, 2019
Award for Best International Short Film
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