Canadian Premiere
CSE 2023

Dancing with reality

At 14 years old, Karim breaks the rules and crosses borders to make his dream come true : become a professionnal dancer. 

SYNOPSIS

At 14 years old, Karim breaks the rules and crosses borders to make his dream come true : become a professionnal dancer.
After a long journey, he settles in Paris and progressively makes his marks, despite facing difficulties as an isolated minor and migrant.

Theme(s): , Culture, Human Rights, Migration, Portrait

DETAILS

Director | , Sylvain Elfassy
Year | , 2022
Country | , France
Duration | 17 minutes
Original language | , French
Subtitles | , English
Image | Sylvain Elfassy
Sound mixing | Paul Letrou
Music | Robin Sebe
Editing | Martin Pierret

DIRECTOR

Photo

Sylvain Elfassy

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

Sylvain is an alumni of Paris ESEC film school (2011), EMCV documentary shcool in Canada (2013), Le Monde news paper academy and School Media Maker in digital journalism (2016). He is working as a freelance documentary DP, director and video journalist full time since 2017. His work brought him all over the world and he worked for medias such as CNN (Great Big Story), Euronews, Bloomberg, BBC, Aljazeera, France Televisions, CNRS Images. His online work has gathered millions of views. With a strong taste for web culture and pure players medias, he has also been working since 2021 with several french youtubers and productions companies invested in internet popularization of science and economics, including Stup Media, Léa Bello (video journalist for Le Monde newspaper), Spline LND, Une bière et Jivay. He also teaches documentary filmmaking and video editing at Montpellier Ynov Campus since 2022. As a director, his favorite topics and interests are human portraits, immigration, social and environmental justice.

PAST SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1

25 July 2023 at 20h45

Parc Médéric-Martin

This film is included in screening Short film competition – Programme #2