HALVES THROUGH NIGHT

نصفين الليل

fiction short, 11 mins. 2022

“After all human life disappeared from earth, a bored artificial intuition connects to non-human life. A plant is having a recurrent dream about a 'last observer'. . A dystopian narrative set in a speculative future tries to reconnect us to possible lost affects.” Produced at AIR / Supported by DARNA

Barzakh is a term of Persian origin to name a transitional space between the living and the dead. It designates the very distance or time that both separates and comes between these two worlds. Halves Through Night explores this veiled space in which beings are suspended, disembodied from the real, and no longer belong to any place.

National premiere at Hallucinations Collectives, compétition officielle, 2022.

International premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival, official competition, 2022.

Selections in official competition :

° Hallucinations Collectives, Lyon, France, 2022.

° Frighfest, London, UK, 2022.

° Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 2022.

° Motel X Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Lisboa, Portugal, 2022.

° Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival, Beijing, China, 2022.

° Wench Film Festival, Mumbai, India, 2022.

° The Vancouver Badass Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2022.

° Film Maudit 2.0, Los Angeles, USA, 2023 - Special Jury Mention.

° Renegate Film Festival, Atlanta, USA, 2023.

° Panama Horror Film Festival, Panama City, Panama, 2023.

Additional screenings :

° SAAED meetings, Marrakesh, Morocco