SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 15’ | FRANCE | 2018
DIRECTOR
Chabname Zariab
CAST
BEHZAD MAHAQ: Ramine
SYRUS SHAHIDI: Le Garde
REDA LAJEL: Le Garde
SYNOPSIS
Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and completely foreign new world: the world of camel racing. Will the distant hope of seeing his mother again give him the strength to overcome his fears and find his place in this hostile environment?
PREMIERE
Spain
FESTIVALS
Festival d’Espalion
Festival St Paul des trois Châteaux 2018
Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz 2018
Festival du film de Sarlat 2018
Festival du film arabe de Fameck 2018
Festival Combat 2018 (Josselin)
Ciné-banlieue section Panorama 2018
15th In the Palace (Bulgarie)
Bucharest ShortFilm CineFest (Roumanie)
Giffoni experience 2018 (Italie)
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (Inde)
San Francisco Iranian Film Festival (USA)
A Rebel Minded festival (USA)Seoul Extreme-Short Film Festival (Korée)
BFI London Film Festival (UK)
Festival d’Edimbourg
Cabbagetown (CANADA)
Post Alley (Seattle, USA)
Festival Image et Vie (Dakar)
Finding Vince 400 (Italie)
TiSSF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival (Grèce)
Kurz film Spiele (allemagne)
Promofest (Espagne) Octobre 2018
Slemani International Film festival (Irak), 2018
We Are All Others, International Short Film Festival of Social Diversity
CHABNAME ZARIÂB
(Kaboul, AFGHANISTAN, 1982). Chabname Zariâb is 7 when she emigrates to France with her parents. She grew up in a very literary family and studied law in Paris, then real estate before becoming an expert in damage. In 2011, Chabname publishes his first novel, “The Afghan Pianist”, winner of several literary prizes. She then turned to writing documentary screenplay. In 2015, she spent the first time behind the camera with her short fiction film “When you hear the bells”, which has met with great success in festivals around the world, accounting lots of awards and being named at the César 2016. After her second short film, “L’enfant chameau” (“The Camel Boy”), she is preparing her next short film and writing her first feature-length work.