Synopsis
This is the story of many of us. Those who have left their country, their families, their languages. For a new, perhaps better life. It is the story of my mother, who left everything to join her husband in France. To (re)build a family life, without knowing what awaited her: loneliness, a feeling of strangeness and the difficulty of expressing herself in a language she does not speak. I, Ghanwa, her daughter, slipped into my mother's skin to tell her story.
Credits
Director (1)
Actresses (4)
Production and distribution (1)
- Foreign distributor (short film) : Hors du bocal
Full credits (8)
- Director of Photography : Charles Kapandji
- Assistant directors : Laura Joubert, Léonard Cortana
- Editors : Marion Hébrard, Mathilde Pelletier
- Sound Recordist : Leïla Tazir
- Producer : Ghanwa Rana
- Sound editor : Marie Bouchet
- Grader : Charles Kapandji
- Sound mixer : Marie Bouchet
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction, Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Poetry, Drama
- Themes : Immigration, Identity, Culture, Family
- Production language : French, Urdu
- Premier pays de production : France
- Coproducer countries : France (90.0%), Pakistan (10.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Pakistan)
- Production year : 2023
- Runtime : 11 min 42 seconds
- Visa number : 162.466
- Visa issue date : 03/07/2024
- Production formats : HD 4K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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