Synopsis
Forty-three-year-old Anne divides her life between the elementary school where she teaches and her home where she engages in a strange ritual with her twenty-two-year-old son Simon. But her twenty-year-old daughter Helena, whom she hasn't seen for a long time, is briefly in town to dance The Rite of Spring.
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- Executive Producer : Paraiso Production
- Foreign production company : Hélicotronc
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
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- Executive Producer : Camille Genaud
- Screenwriters : Cristián Jiménez, Jean-Pol Fargeau
- Director of Photography : Simon Roca
- Music Composer : Aliocha Schneider
- Assistant director : Nadège Catenacci
- Editor : Laurent Leveneur
- Sound Recordist : François Boudet
- Costume designer : Margaux Ponsard
- Foreign producer : Julie Esparbes
- Associate producers : Nathalie Trafford, Clarisse Tupin
- Assistant Operator : Iris Ibanez
- Camera Operator : Simon Véniel
- Production Manager : Loïc Dimitch
- Sound Editor : Charles Deville
- Production Assistant : Camille Allais
- Continuity supervisor : Cynthia Arra
- Production Designer : Laure Satgé
- Special Effects : Sylvain Coisne
- Grader : Christophe Bousquet
- Make-up Artist : Amélie Bouilly-Garnier
- Sound mixer : Aline Gravoy
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Drugs, Motherhood
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France (90.0%), Belgium (10.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 29 min 10 seconds
- Visa number : 152.349
- Visa issue date : 02/11/2021
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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