After a parasite contaminated all of Dakar’s drinking water supplies, a private pharmaceutical company began developing pills to neutralize it. A poor young man who could no longer afford his pills realized as the days passed without his treatment that he had never been so lucid.

Type
Diploma BA
Runtime
29 min
Year
2023
Country
SwitzerlandSenegal
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
UHD
Language
Wolof
Subtitles
FrenchEnglish
Direction
Alicia Mendy
Production
HEAD – Geneva
Co-production
Rhea Plangg for Amka Films
Co-production
Iman Djionne
Screenplay
Alicia Mendy
Asssitant Director
Salif Cima Cissé
Photography
Diara Sow
Editing
Léa Porretta
Sound
Ousmane Coly
Sound editing
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Sound mix
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Soundtrack
Alicia Mendy Sekzy
Colorgrading
Claudia Maharaj
Cast
Baye Diagne
Cast
Cheikh Omar Diaw
Cast
Mame Fatou Sene
Cast
Moussa Thiam
Cast
Moustapha Ngom
Cast
Pape Malick Thiam
Cast
Mouhamed Banda
Cast
Abdoulaye Ba
Cast
Louis Michel Ndene
Cast
Ike Forest Doumingou
Cast
Darlene Obone

After a parasite contaminated all of Dakar’s drinking water supplies, a private pharmaceutical company began developing pills to neutralize it. A poor young man who could no longer afford his pills realized as the days passed without his treatment that he had never been so lucid.

Type
Diploma BA
Runtime
29 min
Year
2023
Country
SwitzerlandSenegal
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
UHD
Language
Wolof
Subtitles
FrenchEnglish

Direction
Alicia Mendy
Production
HEAD – Geneva
Co-production
Rhea Plangg for Amka Films
Co-production
Iman Djionne
Screenplay
Alicia Mendy
Asssitant Director
Salif Cima Cissé
Photography
Diara Sow
Editing
Léa Porretta
Sound
Ousmane Coly
Sound editing
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Sound mix
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Soundtrack
Alicia Mendy Sekzy
Colorgrading
Claudia Maharaj
Cast
Baye Diagne
Cast
Cheikh Omar Diaw
Cast
Mame Fatou Sene
Cast
Moussa Thiam
Cast
Moustapha Ngom
Cast
Pape Malick Thiam
Cast
Mouhamed Banda
Cast
Abdoulaye Ba
Cast
Louis Michel Ndene
Cast
Ike Forest Doumingou
Cast
Darlene Obone

Prizes and awards

  • Best Swiss film school award, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2023)
  • Best direction Award de la Competition Internationale au Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema

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