Après le soleil

After the Sun

Quinzaine 2024 | Short film | 25 min | France, Belgium, Algeria

World premiere

A summer at the end of the 1980s. An Algerian family takes to the road from the Paris suburbs, where they live, to reach Marseille. On the horizon, a mythical ferry, the port of Algiers, a holiday "back home" to a place the children have never experienced. In the overloaded van, a mixture of joy and excitement, freedom and nostalgia.

Director

Rayane Mcirdi

Rayane Mcirdi, a promising artist and filmmaker, graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2019, navigates between contemporary art and cinema. His career took off with exhibitions at the prestigious Sharjah Biennale and continued at the Magasins Généraux. His first documentary film, The Crescent of Fire, was selected for the Cinéma du Réel in 2019, where it won the Detainees’ Prize. He later presented it at the Centre Pompidou and the Jameel Arts Centre in 2023. After the Sun is his first short fiction film, part of his feature project.