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A stopover of a few hours, a few days, or a few years, in the French port of Sète.
In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young Syrians make a stopover to load their cattle, African traders prepare a convoy of second-hand vehicles. Men, machines, and animals transit through this space open onto the sea.

Credits

Director
Laurent Aït Benalla
Screenwriter
Laurent Aït Benalla
Producer
Pierre-Yves Cruaud
Cast
Moroccan sailors

About the Director

Laurent Aït Benalla
Laurent Aït Benalla was born in 1976 to a Moroccan father and a French mother. At 17, he spent a year in Russia and went on to study film theory and Russian at the University of Montpellier, where he obtained a Masters degree. He started working as cameraman and sound operator, then directed several medium-length documentaries, including ‘The Girls of the Moon’ (2003), ‘Marcel Hanoun chemin faisan
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