Synopsis
The story of a young woman, a patient in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique, looking for her son. It's the lie of a worker who claims he hasn't seen the child, in one of the film's few lines of dialogue, which sets off a series of rebellious acts committed by Lucy, the boy's mother, thereby reinforcing the apparent need to keep her confined in the hospital.
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Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : Les Films de l'Après-Midi
- Foreign production company : Papaveronoir Filmes
- Film exports/foreign sales : Agência da Curta Metragem
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriter : João Viana
- Director of photography : Sabine Lancelin
- Music Composer : Pedro Carneiro
- Assistant Director : Paulo Carneiro
- Editor : Paulo Carneiro
- Sound Recordist : Gabriel Mondlane
- Foreign Producer : João Viana
- Co-producer : François D'Artemare
- Camera Operator : Bruno Raquillet
- Sound Editor : Mário Dias
- Production Designer : Filipe André Alves
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Guy Véran
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fairy tale
- Themes : Parable, Poetry, Politics, Dreams, Imagination
- Production language : Swahili
- Coproducer countries : Portugal, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Portugal, France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 12 min 24 seconds
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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