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Technical details

  • Year
  • 2008

  • Type
  • Fiction - Short Film

  • Genre
  • Documentary

  • Audience
  • General Audiences

  • Runtime
  • 28'

  • Original version
  • French

  • Other available versions
  • French

  • Subtitled versions
  • English, Spanish

  • Format
  • Colour, Betacam Digital, Other

  • Status
  • Completed

  • Idea original
  • Pilar Monsell


Synopsis

In a small room in Rabat, a group of refugees from Congo rehearse a theatre piece on their own experience of migration. Real life and representation become the same thing. An imperfect play, unachieved. On the other side, archives from the news show the impossible accomplishment of their dream: migrants rejected to the desert, obliged to start the journey once more. Faces that have lost their names and empty spaces where everything occurred and keep happening. The print of their story captured in silence.

Production company(ies)

Estudi Playtime
Contact Marta Andreu Muñoz
Address Pg. del Canal, 5, studio 8 08980 Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain
Telephone +34 93 666 42 81
E-mail marta@playtime.cat

Festivals

Festival Dei Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival 2008 - Public's Award
Ourense International Independent Film Festival (Spain) 2009
Documenta Madrid 2009
OVNI. Observatorio de Vídeo No Identificado 2009
African Film Festival, Tarifa 2009
Medfilm Festival 2009