Saguenay international
short film festival

Synopsis

In this tale, halfway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. Amani’s innocence and joie de vivre open the narrator’s eyes to the humanity he had never really cared about before.

Production :
Les Films de l'Autre
Distribution :
Les Films du 3 Mars
Contact :
Music :
Dominique Fils-Aimé and Jacques G Roy
Sound designer :
Marie-Pierre Grenier
Screenplay :
Alliah Fafin
Cast :
Ema-Yoh Mahamat Saleh
Narration :
Youssouf Djaoro
Editing :
Alexandre Leblanc
Cinematographer :
Renaud Masbeye

In competition for :


Canadian Grand Prize

Grand Prize

Jury award

Public award

FIPRESCI award

Direction
  • Alliah Fafin

    Alliah Fafin was born in Rwanda and raised in Burundi until the civil war in 1993. After studying directing in New York, she directed music videos for Dominique Fils-Aimé (Révélation Radio-Canada, 2019-2020), as well as promotional videos for artists such as Rafael Lozano Hemmer (Winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts). She left Quebec in 2016 for Chad, where she worked with UNICEF on the production of several videos illustrating the problems encountered by local populations, Nigerian refugees, and Central African returnees. In 2018, she shot her first short film Amani in Chad, which was inspired by her experience in Burundi.