NINA

Elkhatabi, Halima

Subjects: Coming of Age , Family , Women

Directed by

Elkhatabi, Halima

Language

French

Produced by

Patricia Bergeron

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15 min, short film, Quebec, Canada, 2015

A short film on a young mother in Montreal.

Synopsis

At 16 years old, Nina is helpless with regards to her 4-month-old baby Jessie’s incessant crying. Without any escape from the cries and from this new presence is her life, she ventures out from her tiny apartment in a working-class neighbourhood of Montréal for a brief escapade.

 

Credits
Screenplay and direction : Halima Elkhatabi
Image : Nicolas Canniccioni

Art direction: Sylvain Lemaitre
Editing: Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Sound recording: Christophe Motte
Sound conception: Sylvain Bellemare
Production : Patricia Bergeron

 

With: Elizabeth Tremblay Gagnon

 

Financial partners

Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec

SODEC

ONF – Aide au Cinéma Indépendant Canada

Elkhatabi, Halima

Halima Elkhatabi graduated from Institut National de l’Image et du Son of Montréal (INIS) where she received the Excellence Scholarchip, and started her career as a director and a writer for documentaries. She then scripted short fictions including, La barricade (2009), which won Best Short Film at the International Fantasia Film Festival 2011, the Cinema Pioneers Scholarship from Ciné-Québec and the Best Short Fiction film at the Festival international de cinéma jeunesse de Rimouski. In 2011, she was finalist of SODEC's Cours écrire ton court contest for her script, La roue. Nina (2015) is her first short film of fiction as a director.   Filmography   Nina (2015 / 15 min) À St-Henri le 26 août (2011 / 80 min) La tête contre le mur (2010 / 52 min) Demain peut-être (2009 / 6 min)