The Foreign Land
Synopsis
Farida returns for the first time since her childhood to her father's native Algeria. She rediscovers her grandmother's house in the countryside. At night, she is visited by a strange creature that has haunted the family for years.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : PRISM studio de cinéma
- Co-production : Bip TV
Full credits (16)
- Screenwriter : Naël Zaiti-Ruelle
- Director of Photography : Nicolas Pradeau
- Music Composer : Aniss Belkadi
- Assistant director : Romane Massard
- Editor : Amaïllia Bordet
- Sound Recordist : Zachary Cohen
- Line Producers : Titouan Le Gouis, Martin Schrepel
- Voice : Fatima Aibout
- Co-producer : Martin Perrin
- Assistant Operator : Clément Petit
- Production Manager : Titouan Le Gouis
- Continuity supervisor : Alexia Sanchez
- Production Designer : Martin Schrepel
- Grader : Yanis Aarrouf
- Make-up Artist : Sofiane Toumi
- Sound Mixer : Nathan Dufresnoy
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Bizarre
- Themes : Family, Identity, Spiritualité
- Production language : Arabic, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 19 min 25 seconds
- Visa number : 155.363
- Visa issue date : 29/11/2021
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.39
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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