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OBSCURE NIGHT - GOODBYE HERE, ANYWHERE

NUIT OBSCURE - AU REVOIR ICI, N'IMPORTE OÙ

By Sylvain GEORGE

Drama - Completed 2023

In transit in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, Malik and his friends, underages from Morocco, try to reach Europe by any means necessary.

Locarno Film Festival 2023

Concorso Internazionale

El Gouna Film Festival 2023

Feature Documentary Competition

76 Locarno Film Festival 2023

Concorso Internationale / Special mention of the jury; Prize of the Youth

15DMZ FILM FESTIVAL 2023

International Competition / Grand Prize International Competition

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ARABIC, SPANISH
- Duration
- 183 mn
- Director(s)
- Sylvain GEORGE
- Producer(s)
- Marie-Noelle GEORGE (Noir Production), David EPINEY (Alina film), Eugenia MUMENTHALER (Alina Film), Ottavia FRAGNITO
- Synopsis
- Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is one of the last European colonies in Africa as well as a land border between the African continent and Europe. A blind spot.
  
  In transit through the city, Malik and his friends, underages from Morocco, try to reach Europe by any means necessary.
  
  Day after night, they make the 400 blows, survey the city in all directions, turn it inside out like a glove like seismographs revealing the most burning present like the movements of the most distant past, take all the risks to cross the barriers, to cross the waters of the harbour, climbing on the boats…
  
  To remain there, as if dead before being born? Rather "burn the sea" than die before having lived.