THE DAM

Le Barrage

Quinzaine 2022 | Feature film | 84 min

World premiere | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation starts to take a life of its own…

Director

Ali CHERRI

Born in Beirut, Ali Cherri is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Paris. Combining films, videos, sculptures and installation, his work examines the construction of historical narratives. Ali is the Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in London (2021/22) and has been awarded with the Silver Lion for promising artist at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022). His short films The Disquiet and The Digger have been shown in prominent film festivals. The Dam, a fiction shot in Sudan during the revolution, is his debut feature film.

Artistic & technical sheet

With

Maher El Khair (Maher)

Screenplay
Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison in collaboration with Bertrand Bonello

Photography
Bassem Fayad

Sound
Thomas Van Pottelberge, Jakov Munizaba, Simon Apostolou

Editing
Isabelle Manquillet, Nelly Quettier

Music
ROB

Production
KinoElektron
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Coproduction
Galerie Imane Fares (France)
Vega Foundation (Canada)
DGL Travel HQ (Soudan)
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH (Allemagne)
Trilema (Serbie)

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