Summer Fasting
Summer is burning the suburbs. Kader, eleven, tries for the first time to make ramadan fasting. This is a rite of passage that he can’t fail. He is joined in this adventure by his best friend Rudy who, as a non-muslim, sees this tradition as a new game. To achieve this day, the two kids will have to resist hunger, thirst and boredom.
Genre I fiction, comedy
Length I 18 minutes
Director I Abdenoure Ziane
Producer I Archibald Martin
Cast I Sabri Ouamar, Timi-Joy Marbot, Younès Bouab, Naidra Ayadi, Nina Morato, Anaya Ouattara, Marcel Baclet
Image I Alexandra de Saint Blanquat
Editor I Julie Léna
Original soundtrack I Julie Roué
Sound I Colin Favre-Bulle, Armin Reiland, Simon Apostolou
Production manager I Hugo Riggi
1st assistant Director I Pierre Lagardère
Unit production manager I Victoria Cirot
International Sales I InterFilm
Press
Festival selections 2020
Rhodes Island IFF, USA
Clermont-Ferrand IFF, Young audience section, France
Off-Courts, Trouville, France
LIFF Leeds IFF, Leeds, UK
Paris Court Devant, Petit courts devant section, Paris, France
Uppsala Film Fest, Sweden
Plein la Bobine, Young audience IFF, La Bourboule, France
Côte Ouest European Film Fest, Brest, France
Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne, France
Cinemed, Mediteranean Cinema Fest, Montpellier, France
Kuki Interfilm Film Fest, Berlin, Germany
Kinolub IFF, Poland
Festival de la Jeunesse tout court, Rémalard-en-Perche, France
BIKY Busan International Youth Film Festival, South Korea
San Francisco International Short Film Festival, USA
International French Speaking Cinema in Acadia, Canada
International Film Festival for Children and Youth KINOCLUB, Pland
Festival Films Courts Dinan, France
Nancy International Film Festival, France
Minikino Film Week, Bali, Indonesia
FECISO – Festival Internacional del Cine Social de Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
Zero Plus IFF, Russia
Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People, Belfast, UK
Gimpo International Youth Film Festival, South Korea
Mo & Friese Children’s ShortFilm Festival, Germany
Psaroloco International Children’s & Young People’s Film Festivals, Greece
Festival Internacional de Cine de Ponferrada, Spain
ICFF, Teheran, Iran
Hotmilk Film Makers, Cholet, France
MAFICI Festival Internacional De Cine De Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Festival del Cinema di Cefalù, Italia
FilTa Filmtage, Austria
Gazte Film Fest, Spain
Festival de la Petite École, Nancy, France
Athens International Film and Video Festival, USA
Sedicicorto Film Fest, Forli, Italia
Fish and Films, Granville, France
Cine Invisibile, Bilbao, Spain
Cortos Cali, Cali, Colombia
Festival du film jeune de Lyon, France
Motovun Film Fest, Croatia
ICFF International Children Film Fest, Iran
Cine Ponferrada, International Festival, Spain
Hotmilk, Cholet, France
Calibélula, Cali, Colombia
Un poing c’est court, France
Festival du court-métrage Combat, France
Flicker’s Tournee Film Festival, USA
Stir and Fry International Short Film Competition, UK
Orvieto Film Fest, Italy
Ajyal Festival, Qatar
Awards
First Prize – International Vision – Rhodes Island IFF, USA
First Prize – Youth jury – Rhodes Island IFF, USA
Best Short – Isaphan ICFF
Jury Prize – Franco-Arab Festival of Noisy-le-Sec
School Prize – Brest International Film Festival
Petits Courts Devant Prize – Paris Courts Devant
Excellent Prize – Gimpo International Youth Film Festival
Prix COPEAM – Festival Les Nuits Méditerranéennes
Grand Prix – Festival de Vébron
Golden Gate Award – San Francisco Film Festival
Best Fiction Film for ages 8-14 – Psarolloco
Best European Short – SEVIFF Sevilla Indie Film Festival
Grand prize winner of the Eure Department’s short script contest, with the support of the Moulin d’Andé-Céci, Cinematographic Writings Centre, Normandy Images, the CNC – Support before production and Arte France.
Selected at the Producers’Market in Paris Court Devant Fest 2017