ONE VISIBLE
Benjamin, a young slam poet with a disability, lives in a world that stares at him before it even listens to him.
While society reduces him to his vulnerabilities, his mother continues to see the immense light that shines through his words.
An intimate and profoundly human story about love, dignity, and the power of difference.
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SAADI BELGAIDDirector
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SAADI BELGAIDWriter
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SAADI BELGAIDProducer
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Marie de MontalembertKey Cast"Claire Malraux"
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Mohamed DrameKey Cast"Benjamin"
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Manon TissierKey Cast
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Laurence BarrandKey Cast
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Xavier BonastreKey Cast
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Simon ServonnatKey Cast
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Frédéric ChérubiniKey Cast
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Kevin RafiieKey Cast
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Bérenger BrillanteIMAGE
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Mallory ParentLUMIÈRE
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Jayce Allisson KarlCOMPOSITEURS
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Adrian BerenguerCOMPOSITEURS
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Adrien PavaoCOMPOSITEURS
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Gauthier HammerSOUND OPERATOR
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Eyal SHALTIELMIXER SOUND DESIGNER
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Isabelle KessedjianDECOR
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FILMETSENS PRODUCTIONSPRODUCTIONYOU BURN
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Project Title (Original Language):UN VISIBLE
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:10 minutes 54 seconds
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Completion Date:March 30, 2025
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:France
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Language:French
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Shooting Format:RED
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Tirana Mediterranean Film FestivalTirana
May 1, 2025
Première mondial
Official Selection -
Paris Courts DevantParis
France
May 10, 2025
Sélection officielle -
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions Volume 5London
June 2, 2025
Official Selection -
Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA)Kerala
April 3, 2026
Première
3 Awards Winner (Best Decor + Best Motivational Short Film + Best Inspiring Short Film) -
Fresco International Film FestivalYerevan
August 22, 2025
Première Arménienne
Official Selection -
The French Duck Film FestivalParis
France
September 12, 2025
Official Selection -
Faba FilmsNEW YORK
January 1, 2026
BEST SCREENPLAY -
MTPIFF – Montpellier Independent Film FestivalMontpellier
France
July 4, 2026
HONORABLE MENTION -
Festival international du film NanoCon (NIFF)Longview
September 26, 2025
Nominee -
Great Eiffel // Paris Visions IFFParis
France
October 3, 2025
BEST DIRECTOR -
Anti-War International Independent Film FestivalJöhvi
October 3, 2025
Premiere Estonie
Official Selection -
Afrobrix Film FestivalBrescia
November 14, 2025
Official Selection -
Uno sguardo raro Festival - Rare Disease International Film FestivalRome
November 17, 2025
Finalist -
Bridge of PeaceParis
France
November 6, 2025
Award Winner Best Short Film -
World Culture Festival KarachiKarachi
Pakistan
November 15, 2025
Finalist -
Muğla Zeytin Çiçeği Uluslararası Kısa Film Yarışması / Muğla Zeytin Çiçeği International Short Film CompetitionIstanbul
November 24, 2025
Official Selection -
Phare International Film FestivalAlbion
November 19, 2025
Honorable Mention (Best Director) -
Picasso International Film FestivalTapovan
December 23, 2025
2 Awards Winner (Best Writer / Best Editor) -
Mpumalanga International Film FestivalMpumalanga
May 3, 2026
Première
Official Selection -
Cannes Film AwardsCannes
France
May 4, 2026
Nominée
Saadi Belgaid is an independent screenwriter, director, and producer, trained at the Parisian film schools EICAR and ESRA.
His films, straddling the line between reality and intimacy, explore the invisible aspects of our society and give voice to what the world too often overlooks.
His short films, featuring prominent figures in French cinema such as Bernadette Lafont, Sabrina Ouazani, Mathias Mlekuz, and Jean-Claude Dreyfus, have been selected for and won awards at numerous international film festivals.
Committed beyond the screen, he has also advocated for artists' rights at the French Senate's Questure (a French administrative body) as part of the Artistes Citoyens (Citizen Artists) collective.
His work is rooted in a profoundly human, inclusive, and contemporary vision of cinema.
Through his films, Saadi BELGAID explores the discreet beauty of beings and things, revealing what the hurried eye no longer perceives: the grandeur hidden in the apparent insignificance of everyday life.
ONE VISIBLE features Mohamed Dramé, a slam poet, actor, and former French junior champion, who lives with a real disability. His unique journey embodies resilience, dignity, and inner strength. Freely inspired by his story, the film questions our perception of difference and the place society gives to those it too often reduces to their apparent fragility.
Through a deliberately sensitive and understated approach, disability is never treated as a spectacle or as a defining characteristic. It appears only in fleeting glimpses, like a discreet truth. Because what interested me most was revealing the human being behind the label, the inner richness behind what society thinks it perceives.
The film also tells the story of the absolute love of an adoptive mother raising her child alone. A woman who passes on to her son a simple but essential conviction: no destiny should be confined by the gaze of others. Through this relationship, the narrative becomes an ode to transmission, to emancipation, and to that profoundly human capacity to transform wounds into strengths.
The title, Un Visible (One Visible), also plays on this duality. Spoken, it evokes “the invisible,” what society doesn’t see or sometimes refuses to look at.
In writing, separated into two words, it becomes, on the contrary, an affirmation: to make visible what was not. To give a place, a voice, and a light to those who are too often relegated to the margins.