Synopsis
On a sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy accompanies his father Tayseer and his father's friend Rayan to a bird-hunting jaunt in the Lebanese mountainside. Tayseer grabs this opportunity to toughen up his son by handing him a knife to slaughter a wounded bird. Firas refuses to slaughter the bird, defying his oppressing father’s logic of the concept of manhood.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de l’Altaï
- Foreign production company : Khamsin Films
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Tania El Khoury
- Screenwriter : Hussen Ibraheem
- Director of Photography : Julien Saez
- Music Composer : Sharif Sehnaoui
- Assistant Director : Ameen Nayfeh
- Editors : Hussen Ibraheem, Kamal El Mallakh
- Sound recordist : Saoussen Tatah
- Foreign producer : Tania El Khoury
- Executive Producer : Hortense Maunoury
- Assistant Operator : Hugo Bottin
- Sound editor : Kinda El Hassan
- Special Effects : Chadi Abo
- Grader : Alexandra Pocquet
- Sound mixers : Adrian Lo, Michael Kaczmarek
- Sound design : Victor Bresse
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Education, Traditions, Violence
- Production language : Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 15 min 23 seconds
- Visa number : 156.758
- Production formats : HD Cinemascope
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.39
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (1)
Berlin International Short Film Festival for Young and Children (Kuki)
Germany, 2023
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