Silent Storms
Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage
Dania Reymond-Boughenou / Feature Narrative / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / 94 min / Original Language: Arabic, French / Interests: Drama, Social Issues, Fantasy
Synopsis
Strange storms of yellow dust fall on a town. Nacer, a 45-year-old journalist, is covering the phenomenon. As he observes the appearance of supernatural events, his dead wife Fajar comes back as nothing happened.
Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Nacer must unravel a haunting past from dark years everyone wanted to forget.
Credits
- Director
- Dania Reymond-Boughenou
- Screenwriter
- Dania Reymond-Boughenou
- Producer
- Jérémy Forni - Chevadeuxtrois, Camille Chandellier - La Petite Prod
About the Director
Dania Reymond-Boughenou is a Franco-Algerian filmmaker born in Algiers in 1982. She studied cinema at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille and Lyon and followed the course of the Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts where she received the Collector Studio Award. In 2015, her work was sponsored by Mounir Fatmi at the Salon Jeune Création. She directed several videos and short films, including the medium-length film 'Le jardin d’essai', shot in Algiers in 2016. The film showed in several festivals, including the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, the Rencontres du moyen-métrage de Brive, Cinémed and the Film Meetings of Bejaia—going on to win several awards.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Jérémy Forni
- Company:
- Chevadeuxtrois
- Email:
- jeremy@chevaldeuxtrois.com
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Main Contact
Camille Chandellier
- Company:
- La Petite Prod
- Email:
- camille@lapetiteprod.fr