Deadlock
Synopsis
Sifou and Mahrez are childhood friends. Both seventeen, they grew up in the Sidi Lekbir district of Algiers and watched their elder brother leave illegally for Europe. Lost between the gloomy fate promised to them by their neighborhood and the uncertainty that lurks on the horizon, they ponder their future. Can they really break the deadlock?
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- Executive Producer : Ocurens
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Germain Robin
- Director of Photography : Julien Artaud
- Music Composer : Maxime Beucher
- Editor : Antonin Bronès
- Executive Producer : Andréa Thirion
- Assistant Operator : Guillaume Chlique-Bourdeau
- Production manager : Myriam El Mounsif
- Sound Editor : Jean-Baptiste Saint Pol
- Grader : Arnaud Laurent
- Sound Mixer : Jean-Baptiste Saint Pol
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Friendship, Emigration, Youth
- Production language : Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2024
- Runtime : 10 min
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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