Beutset
Dawn
L'aurore
Switzerland / Senegal, November 2023
FILM,
Fiction,
30 min.
- directed by
- Alicia Mendy
- Written by
- Alicia Mendy
- Status
- In distribution
When a parasite contaminates all the drinking water of Dakar, pills are created to neutralize it. Alioune is a young man who can no longer afford his pills and is exposed to the symptoms of the parasite: Madness and dementia. As the days go by, he realises that he had never been so lucid, and thus begins his journey of political and spiritual awakening.
credits
- World Premiere
- November 2023
- Original Version
- Wolof (french/english subtitles), colour, DCP, 30 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0006-D6D2-0000-B-0000-0000-4
- Production
- Amka Films Productions SA, Haute école d'art et de design - Genève (HEAD – Genève) Département Cinéma, Lido Pictures, Guddi Productions
- Producer
- Rhea Plangg, Amel Soudani, Iman Dijonne
- directed by
- Alicia Mendy
- Written by
- Alicia Mendy
- Cinematography
- Diara Sow
- Editing
- Léa Porretta
- Location Sound Mix
- Ousmane Coly
- Sound Editing
- Sebastian Friedmann
- Sound Design
- Yatoni Roy Cantu
- Re-Recording Mix
- Yatoni Roy Cantu
- Music
- Alicia Mendy
- Production Design
- Mohamed Diouf
- Costumes
- Mariam Diop
Cast
El Hadji Alioune Diagne as Alioune
Cheikh Omar Diaw as Minuit
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Amka Films Productions SA , Lido Pictures , Guddi Productions
Awards
(a selection)
- Rio de Janeiro, Festival Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival , Best Direction – Ex aequo (International Competition) 2024 (Winner)
- Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Award for the Best Swiss Shool Film 2023 (Winner)
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Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur,
Prix du meilleur film des écoles de cinéma suisses (Industry Award)
2023
(Winner)
Alicia Mendy
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Neuchâtel, 23rd Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
05.07.2024 - 13.07.2024 -
Rio de Janeiro, 34th International Short Film Festival Rio de Janeiro
17.04.2024 - 24.04.2024 -
Dresden, 36.International Short Film Festival Dresden
16.04.2024 - 21.04.2024 -
Tampere, 54th Tampere Film Festival
06.03.2024 - 10.03.2024 -
Winterthur, 27. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
07.11.2023 - 12.11.2023