Synopsis
In March 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Parisian high school where I work welcomed students from the Kyiv International Highschool. The arrival of young Yuliia in my Year 11 class brought back traumatic memories of my arrival in France in 1989, at the age of eight, during the Lebanese civil war.
Credits
Director (1)
Full credits (22)
- Screenwriter : Sarah Hatem
- Director of photography : Sarah Blum
- Assistant directors : Émilien Benoît, Nathalie Gontcharoff
- Editor : Juliette Levêque
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Dabo
- Costume designer : Philippine Lefèvre
- Line Producer : Jacques Zanoli
- Voice : Sarah Hatem
- Co-producers : Sarah Hatem, Thierry Bousquet, Benjamin Magnard
- Camera operator : Marie Celette
- Production Manager : Édouard Durup
- Sound Editor : Justin Valette
- Assistant editor : Anna Brunstein
- Continuity supervisor : Florence Urbani
- Production Designer : Marion Canivet
- Casting : Sarah Hatem
- Chief Lighting Technician : Baptiste Brousse
- Grader : Marina Amaro
- Make-up Artists : Aëla Gevrest, Lola Husson, Manon Laurent
- Sound Mixer : Justin Valette
- Participants : Sarah Hatem, Yuliia Sharavska, Laurence Blasco, René Hernandez, Leila-Sophie Uras, Dorothée Rouge
- Sound design : Justin Valette
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Video art, Research - Experimental
- Themes : War, Memories
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Lebanon
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Lebanon)
- Production year : 2024
- Runtime : 27 min 16 seconds
- Production formats : HD 4K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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