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Les Enfants Rouge

 Red Path

Original name: Les Enfants Rouge
English name: Red Path
Year: 2024
Run time: 100 minutes
Language: Arabic
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Director: Lotfi Achour
Producer: Anissa Daoud, Sébastien Hussenot, Lotfi Achour
Cast: Ali Hleli, Yassine Samouni, Wided Dabebi, Younes Naouar, Latifa Gafsi
Screenplay: Natacha de Pontcharra, Doria Achour, Sylvain Cattenoy, Lotfi Achour
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń
Editor: Ewin Ryckaert, Malek Chatta, Anne-Laure Guégan
Sound Designer: Aymen Labidi
Music Composer: Jawhar Basti, Venceslas Catz
Production Designer: Mohamed Mouhli
Production Company: A.P.A : Artistes Producteurs Associés, La Luna Productions
World Sales: MPM Premium

Festivals:

  • Locarno FF 2024
  • Stockholm FF 2024
  • Thessaloniki FF 2024
  • Warsaw FF 2024
  • Vancouver FF 2024

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2024 Red Path
  • 2022 Angle mort (short)
  • 2016 Burning Hope
  • 2016 Law of Lamb (short)
  • 2014 Father (short)
  • 2006 Ordure (short)

Director's Biography:

Lotfi Achour

Born in Tunis, Lotfi Achour is an author, director, and producer. After his baccalauréat, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law and Economics in Tunis, where he studied economics. After a family tragedy, he realized that he wanted to become an actor and, at the age of 21, began his training at the Grenoble Conservatory and studied theater and cinema at the Sorbonne Institute of Theatrical Studies. His latest show was co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the London 2012 Olympic Games. In the cinema, he has directed 3 short films that have won dozens of awards, including Law of Lamb, which was nominated in the short film category at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

Synopsis:

A group of men attack two young shepherds. The 13-year-old Achraf is forced to bring the head of his cousin Nizar to the family as a gruesome message. Trying not to lose his mind, Achraf realizes that the ghost of his cousin is determined to accompany him. With the helplessness of his elders, Achraf is torn between holding on to Nizar and his duty to lead the family to retrieve the body.