Synopsis
Alassane, a thirty-year-old French-Senegalese, lives alone with his nine-year-old son, Yanis, in a shabby studio in the suburbs of Bordeaux. Unemployed, Alassane does his best to maintain a balance. The day the judge decides to place Yanis in a foster home, Alassane takes all the risks to stay with his son.
Credits
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Actors (9)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Vatos Locos Productions
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Romain Daubeach, Marine Bergère, Jean-Bernard Marlin
- Screenwriter : Daouda Diakhaté
- Directors of Photography : Maxence Lemonnier, Didier Daubeach
- Music Composer : Florencia Di Concilio
- Assistant director : Roxane Guiga
- Editor : Joseph Comar
- Costume designer : Séverine Cales
- Assistant Operators : Iris Ibanez, Marc Stef
- Production Manager : Maxime Hervé
- Sound Editor : Alexis Meynet
- Continuity supervisor : Émeline Prat
- Production Designer : Tinka Rodriguez Hernandez
- Grader : Élie Akoka
- Make-up Artist : Charlotte Le Clerre
- Sound mixers : Victor Praud, Guilain Ranouil
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Family, Society, The future
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 27 min 59 seconds
- Visa number : 153.960
- Visa issue date : 01/04/2021
- Production formats : Digital video
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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