The Storms
Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage
Dania Reymond-Boughenou / Feature Narrative / Algeria, France, Qatar / 100 min / Original Language: Arabic, French / Interests: Drama, Social Issues, Fantasy
Synopsis
Mysterious yellow sandstorms strike down upon Algiers and its surrounding areas. Samir, a print news reporter, covers the phenomenon for his newspaper. With supernatural events occurring more frequently, his wife, Fajar leaves him—and his nephew, a medical doctor named Yacine, begins to hear the dead. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir is forced to confront a past that still haunts him.
Credits
- Director
- Dania Reymond-Boughenou
- Screenwriter
- Dania Reymond-Boughenou
- Producer
- Annabelle Bouzom, Les films de l’autre cougar
About the Director
Dania Reymond-Boughenou is a Franco-Algerian filmmaker born in Algiers in 1982. She studied cinema at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille and Lyon and followed the course of the Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts where she received the Collector Studio Award. In 2015, her work was sponsored by Mounir Fatmi at the Salon Jeune Création. She directed several videos and short films, including the medium-length film 'Le jardin d’essai', shot in Algiers in 2016. The film showed in several festivals, including the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, the Rencontres du moyen-métrage de Brive, Cinémed and the Film Meetings of Bejaia—going on to win several awards.