Nuit obscure – Au revoir ici, n'importe où
Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere
France / Switzerland, August 2023
FILM,
Documentary,
183 min.
- directed by
- Sylvain George
- Written by
- Sylvain George
- Status
- In distribution
Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a land border between the African continent and Europe. In transit through the town, Malik and his friends, underage youths from Morocco, try to reach Europe by any means necessary. Day in, day out, they roam the city, thus wandering through the past and the present, taking every risk to scale fences and get onto boats. Do they stay, as if already dead before being born? Better to take the risk than to die before you have even lived.
credits
- World Premiere
- August 2023
- Original Version
- Arabic, Spanish, b/w, DCP, 183 min.
- Production
- Noir production, Alina film, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
- Producer
- Marie-Noëlle George, Ottavia Fragnito, Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney
- directed by
- Sylvain George
- Written by
- Sylvain George
- Cinematography
- Sylvain George, Sylvain George
- Editing
- Sylvain George, Sylvain George
- Sound Editing
- Carlos Ibañez Diaz
- Re-Recording Mix
- Carlos Ibañez Diaz
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Alina film , Noir production
Awards
(a selection)
- Locarno, Locarno Film Festival, Special Mention (Concorso internazionale) 2023 (Winner)
- Locarno, Locarno Film Festival, «Environment is quality of life» Prize (Junior Jury Awards) 2023 (Winner)
- Gyeonggi-do, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Grand prize 2023 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Paris, 46e Cinéma du Réel Festival international de films documentaires Paris
22.03.2024 - 31.03.2024 -
Sao Paulo, 47a Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo
19.10.2023 - 01.11.2023 -
Vienna, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2023
19.10.2023 - 31.10.2023 -
Gyeonggi-do, 15th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
14.09.2023 - 21.09.2023 -
Locarno, 76° Locarno Film Festival
02.08.2023 - 12.08.2023