Synopsis
Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill the last wishes of the deceased: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Stank
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (15)
- Screenwriter : Roy Arida
- Director of photography : Lucile Mercier
- Assistant Director : Toufic Khreich
- Editor : Xavier Sirven
- Sound Recordist : Marc-Olivier Brullé
- Costume designer : Bshara Atallah
- Assistant Operator : Guillaume Mattana
- Camera operator : Lucile Mercier
- Production manager : Marie-Lynn Nasrallah
- Sound Editor : Marc-Olivier Brullé
- Production Designer : Riwa Baroud
- Compositor : Karim Douaidy
- Grader : Laurent Navarri
- Make-up Artist : Géraldine Belbeo'ch
- Sound Mixer : Paul Jousselin
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Family, War, Death
- Production language : Arabic
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 2023
- Runtime : 37 min 10 seconds
- Visa number : 156.229
- Visa issue date : 13/01/2023
- Production formats : HD 4K
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Rating restrictions : None
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