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THE DAM

Fiction Feature Film - 84min - 2022

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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…

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
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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

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

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