Synopsis
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring them together. Will this be enough to make them something other than what colonisation has decided they should be: a savage to be exterminated, an African to be enslaved?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Vertical production
- Co-production : Black Moon Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Sudu Connexion
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Louise Hentgen
- Screenwriter : Anne-Sophie Nanki
- Director of Photography : Jo Jo Lam
- Music Composer : David Sztanke
- Editor : Céline Perreard
- Sound Recordist : Arnaud Lavaleix
- Costume designer : Naïke Lafleur
- Line Producer : Axel Lafleur
- Co-producer : Axel Lafleur
- Assistant Operators : Céline Erb, Adrien Valet, Léana Savio
- Camera Operator : Dan Occo
- Sound Editor : Colin Favre-Bulle
- Continuity supervisor : Julia Colin
- Production Designer : Naïke Lafleur
- Casting : Marvin Yamb
- Grader : Christophe Bousquet
- Make-up Artists : Karine Gatibelza, David Scherer, Corinne Bisso, Yéléna Urcel
- Sound Mixer : Maxime Roy
- Still Photographer : Shahine Héry
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Historical, Drama
- Themes : Racial discrimination, Violence, Freedom
- Production language : Businengé Tongo
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 24 min 52 seconds
- Visa number : 156.083
- Visa issue date : 30/06/2022
- Production formats : Digital video
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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