A GLORIOUS DAY by Romuald Rodrigues Andrade & Ludovic Aklil Piette continues to tour in festivals in France and abroad.

The short film was selected inthe Alter-Native Int. Short Film Festival (03/11), in Poland at  Lublin Festival (17/11) and the Ale Kino! Festival in Poznan (29/11). It will also be shown in Morocco at Festival Cinema et Migration in Agadir (from 13 to 18/11) and at Schulkinowoche in Hamburg, Germany (from 20/11 to 01/12). In France, you can catch it at Africlap in Toulouse on 17/11 in Ludovic’s presence and at Festival Education movie d’Évreux on 08/12 in the presence of Romuald.

Gabriella Choueifaty’s first short film, LES PLUIES D’ÉTÉ, has just begun shooting in Lebanon.
Summer 2006, the war rages on and Israeli bombardments rain down on Beirut. The story follows the daily lives of Sariah (13 years old), her older sister and her mother, forced to take refuge in the mountains. Tension mounts between the three women, who react differently to this forced quarantine.

LES PLUIES D’ÉTÉ is a Franco-Lebanese co-production with Né à Beyrouth Films.

With support from CNC, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Télévisions, Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF), MEDIA Europe Créative, Région Sud (development), Ville de Marseille, Procirep-Angoa.

Project selected for WarshatAflam (CNC Talents en court 2019 program) & Euro Connection at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2022.

Following the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, A GLORIOUS DAY, directed by Romuald Rodrigues Andrade and Ludovic Aklil-Piette, wins the Public Prize for Best Short Film shot in the Southern Region at La Ciotat Berceau du Cinéma festival.

 

The short film by Romuald Rodrigues Andrade & Ludovic Aklil Piette has been selected at Off-Courts Festival and will be screened on September 6th at 4pm in Trouville!

Second film of each director, A GLORIOUS DAY follows the journey of Kamel who, in order to make his social project evolve, will find himself used in a political communication operation…

The next short film by Romuald Rodrigues Andrade and Ludovic Aklil Piette is currently in post-production! Screenings and broadcasting planned in 2022.

Kamel (Ilies Kadri) works with his father, owner of a bar in their housing estate in Vitrolles. Committed and idealistic, he has a long-standing social project for his neighborhood. With his sidekicks Hichem (Malik Bouchenaf) and Youssoufa (Mamadou-Lamine Doumbia), he is invited to present it to the Minister of the City himself, on an official visit to Vitrolles. Kamel is thrown into a communication operation that quickly overtakes him…