Silent Storms

U.S. Premiere

About This Film

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Festival Year: 2025
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Run Time: 84 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): Belgium, France
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Language: Arabic, French
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English Subtitles: Yes
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Captions: None

Film Overview

US PREMIERENothing looms over a city like the presence of death. While investigating a mysterious series of sandstorms that have laid a permanent cover over the seaside, a journalist comes face to face with his wife’s ghost—a victim of the Algerian Civil War—in this haunting science-fiction drama.Strange storms of yellow dust fall on a town. Nacer, a 45-year-old journalist, is covering the phenomenon. As he observes the appearance of supernatural events, his dead wife Fajar comes back as if nothing happened to her. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Nacer must unravel a haunting past from dark years everyone wanted to forget.

Film Contact: BFF

Cast & Crew

Directed By

Dania Reymond-Boughenou

Produced By

Jérémy Forni, Camille Chandellier

Screenwriting

Dania Reymond-Boughenou, Virginie Legeay, Vincent Poymiro

Cinematographers

Augustin Barbaroux

Editors

Julie Naas

Principal Cast

Khaled Benaissa, Camélia Jordana, Shirine Boutella, Mehdi Ramdani