37th edition
18-26 january 2025
Image Le Silence
France
1996 Fiction 10 min
In the Parisian suburbs, Samira lives with her parents who are from North Africa. The young girl has a very strong bond with her father though he has built a wall of silence around his family, due to his nostalgia for his own culture.
With : Wafaa El Achekradi, Saïda Bekkouche, Mahmoud Benyacoub
Screenplay : Safaa Fathy
Image : Pascale Granel
Sound : Régis Muller, Dominique Lacour
Editing : Ariane Doublet
Production : Gloria Films Production - 81, rue Réaumur, 75002 Paris, France - Tél : 01 42 21 42 11, Fax : 01 42 21 43 31
Born in Egypt in 1958, Safaa Fathy specialized in Theater during her academic studies in the United Kingdom and in France. After directing several plays she made two documentary films for television (Canal and Channel Four). Le Silence is her first fictional short.