Nominated in the category Best Short Film at the Swiss Film Prize 2023.

IMANI

Directed by Katia Scarton-Kim

Short feature film | Fiction | 2022

With Tia Diagne

Producer : Elisa Garbar

Produced by Louise Productions Lausanne

ISAN : 0000-0005-8663-0000-0-0000-0000-3

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Synopsis

Imani is a Black-African minor teenager lives in Lausanne without papers. To pay off the debt incurred by the cost of her journey, she is forced to prostitute herself. Soon Imani discovers her little sister has joined her.

Trailer
Credits

Produced by: Louise Productions Lausanne

Associated Producer : Julie Arrue, Cristal Films, Paris

Genre: Fiction

Duration: 22 min 30

Year: december 2021

Original language: Wolof, French

Shooting format: Digital 2K

Nationality: Swiss

Director: Katia Scarton-Kim

Scenario: Katia Scarton-Kim

With: Tia Diagne (Imani), Sokhna Khadidiatou Ndiaye (Kouma), Rose-Marie Diatta (Efia), Fayiza Cissé (Touré), Cathy Sarr Mohr (Mama Fatou)                     

Director of Photography: Séverine Barde

Set Designer: Anne-Carmen Vuillemier

Costumes: Maria Muscalu

Make Up & Hair stylists: Noelia de Jesus, Jeanne Julien

Editor: Loredana Cristelli, Orianne Ramseyer

Sound: Camille Bonard, Igor Marlot

Casting : Alexandre Guy Edimo Doo, Ali Sinaci

Coproduction : RTS Radio télévision Suisse, SSR SRG

With the Support of : OFC, CinéForom et la Loterie Romande, Soroptimist International Switzerland, UNIGE Service Diversité & égalité, Stiftung Corymbo

Sales : N/A

Festivals

  • FACETS 39th Annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF39) - 2022

  • The LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, USA - 2022

Press
Projections

1st. Screening (SUB-FR), Festival Les Créatives, “Caméra au poing”, Geneva, 2021.11.27 [Link to reserve a place]

RTS2 - 12th December 2023 at 11pm