The Dam
Synopsis
North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brickyard on the Nile, downstream of the dam. Just like his exiled companions, he spends his days in the mud, far from his loved ones and in exhausting labour. Each night, he secretly works on the erection of a structure, a tall shape made out of mud, wood, and plastic. As the mud builds over the solid skeleton of the structure, it begins to take on an almost organic-looking form. One day, as he returns from Jebel Barkal, the mystical mountain, his creation has mysteriously disappeared. Soon strange occurrences begin to take place, and Abu Salma starts to get the uneasy feeling that someone or something is watching him.
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Director (1)
Actor (1)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : KinoElektron
- Co-production : Galerie Imane Farès
- Foreign production companies : Twenty Twenty Vision, Trilema, DGL Travel HQ
- Film exports/foreign sales : Indie Sales
- French distribution : Dulac Distribution
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Janja Kralj
- Screenwriters : Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison, Bertrand Bonello
- Director of Photography : Bassem Fayyad
- Music Composer : Rob
- Assistant Director : Toufic Khreich
- Editors : Isabelle Manquillet, Nelly Quettier
- Sound recordists : Thomas Van Pottelberge, Jakov Munidaba
- Associate Producer : Rémi Bonhomme
- Sound Mixer : Simon Apostolou
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : France (79.0%), Serbia (21.0%)
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Serbia)
- Production year : 2022
- French release : 01/03/2023
- Runtime : 1 h 24 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 154.862
- Visa issue date : 14/12/2022
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.39
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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