Ali CherriAli Cherri | The Dam

Première Quinzaine des Réalisateurs - Cannes 2022

THE DAM

Fiction Feature Film - 84min - 2022

The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile
The Dam  Fiction Feature Film - 84min mobile

Excerpt

SYNOPSIS

Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation starts to take a life of its own…

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ACTORS 

Maher El Khair (Maher)

 

TEAM

Screenplay
Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison in collaboration with Bertrand Bonello

Photography
Bassem Fayad

Sound
Thomas Van Pottelberge, Jakov Munizaba, Simon Apostolou

Editing
Isabelle Manquillet, Nelly Quettier

Music
ROB

 

PRODUCTION

Production
KinoElektron
56 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
75010 Paris – France
T: +33 1 48 24 51 34
info@kinoelektron.com  
www.kinoelektron.com  

Coproduction 
Galerie Imane Fares (France)
Vega Foundation (Canada)
DGL Travel HQ  (Soudan)
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH (Allemagne)
Trilema (Serbie)

International Sales

Indie Sales
32 rue Washington
75008 Paris – France
T: +33 6 76 01 41 69
info@indiesales.eu
www.indiesales.eu

Presse France
Hassan Guerrar
T : +33 6 23 24 08 90
Julie Braun
T : +33 6 63 75 31 61
julie@helegant.fr

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Publicist (international press) 
Brigitta Portier
T : +32 477 9825 84 
brigittaportier@alibicommunications.be  
Gary Walsh
T+32 495 7738 82 
garywalsh@alibicommunications.be