Country: France
Year: 2007
Duration: 9'
Elderly Tahar dies in a hospital bed, surrounded by his relatives.
His body is prepared for the funeral; people pray as they wait for
the ceremony to begin. In the meantime, his son, Kamel, who
doesn’t know of the tragic event, continues to work as though
it were any other day.
“One evening, my grandfather Tahar died in palliative care. Zouina,
his stepdaughter is there. Aziz, his son, is there. Fayçal is there.
I am there. Isn’t God there? Kamel arrives too late.”
Biography
film director
Soufiane Adel
Soufiane Adel (Algeria, 1981) moved from Algeria to France when he was eight years old. In 2001 he got a degree in applied arts at Vitry-sur-Seine and in 2006 he graduated in industrial design from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris.
Besides being a designer, he has also made various short films: Nuits closes (2004), which won the Jury Prize at the Festival Cinésept of Jussieu; Chapitre 5: Contestation (2007), which won the Jury Prize at the Festival of Seine-Saint-Denis; and the documentary La Cassette (2007), which won the Jury Prize and the «Mouvement» magazine prize at the Festival Bandits-Mages.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nuits closes (cm, 2004), Chapitre 1: Consultation (coregia/codirector Pierre Alex, cm, 2005), Chapitre 2: Périphérique (coregia/codirector Pierre Alex, cm, 2005), Chapitre 5:
Contestation (coregia/codirector Pierre Alex, cm, 2007), La Cassette (doc., 2007), Kamel s’est suicidé six fois, son père est mort (cm, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Soufiane Adel
fotografia, montaggio/cinematography,film editing Angela Terrail-Adel
suono/sound Thomas Buet
interpreti/cast
Zouina Adel, Kamel Adel, Aziz Adel, Farid Adel, Fayçal Adel, Jean-Marie Lebouc, Soufiane Adel
produttore/producer Alice Beckmann
produzione, vendita all’estero/production,world sales Grec (Groupe de Recherches et d’Essais Cinématographique)
fotografia, montaggio/cinematography,film editing Angela Terrail-Adel
suono/sound Thomas Buet
interpreti/cast
Zouina Adel, Kamel Adel, Aziz Adel, Farid Adel, Fayçal Adel, Jean-Marie Lebouc, Soufiane Adel
produttore/producer Alice Beckmann
produzione, vendita all’estero/production,world sales Grec (Groupe de Recherches et d’Essais Cinématographique)