Experiencing Interruptions?

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.

  • SAADI BELGAID
    Director
  • SAADI BELGAID
    Writer
  • SAADI BELGAID
    Producer
  • Marie de Montalembert
    Key Cast
    "Claire Malraux"
  • Mohamed Drame
    Key Cast
    "Benjamin"
  • Manon Tissier
    Key Cast
  • Laurence Barrand
    Key Cast
  • Xavier Bonastre
    Key Cast
  • Simon Servonnat
    Key Cast
  • Frédéric Chérubini
    Key Cast
  • Kevin Rafiie
    Key Cast
  • Bérenger Brillante
    IMAGE
  • Mallory Parent
    LUMIÈRE
  • Jayce Allisson Karl
    COMPOSITEURS
  • Adrian Berenguer
    COMPOSITEURS
  • Adrien Pavao
    COMPOSITEURS
  • Gauthier Hammer
    SOUND OPERATOR
  • Eyal SHALTIEL
    MIXER SOUND DESIGNER
  • Isabelle Kessedjian
    DECOR
  • FILMETSENS PRODUCTIONS
    PRODUCTION
    YOU BURN
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    UN VISIBLE
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tirana Mediterranean Film Festival
    Tirana
    May 1, 2025
    Première mondial
    Official Selection
  • Paris Courts Devant
    Paris
    France
    May 10, 2025
    Sélection officielle
  • Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions Volume 5
    London
    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 Festival
    Yerevan
    August 22, 2025
    Première Arménienne
    Official Selection
  • The French Duck Film Festival
    Paris
    France
    September 12, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Faba Films
    NEW YORK
    January 1, 2026
    BEST SCREENPLAY
  • MTPIFF – Montpellier Independent Film Festival
    Montpellier
    France
    July 4, 2026
    HONORABLE MENTION
  • Festival international du film NanoCon (NIFF)
    Longview
    September 26, 2025
    Nominee
  • Great Eiffel // Paris Visions IFF
    Paris
    France
    October 3, 2025
    BEST DIRECTOR
  • Anti-War International Independent Film Festival
    Jöhvi
    October 3, 2025
    Premiere Estonie
    Official Selection
  • Afrobrix Film Festival
    Brescia
    November 14, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Uno sguardo raro Festival - Rare Disease International Film Festival
    Rome
    November 17, 2025
    Finalist
  • Bridge of Peace
    Paris
    France
    November 6, 2025
    Award Winner Best Short Film
  • World Culture Festival Karachi
    Karachi
    Pakistan
    November 15, 2025
    Finalist
  • Muğla Zeytin Çiçeği Uluslararası Kısa Film Yarışması / Muğla Zeytin Çiçeği International Short Film Competition
    Istanbul
    November 24, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Phare International Film Festival
    Albion
    November 19, 2025
    Honorable Mention (Best Director)
  • Picasso International Film Festival
    Tapovan
    December 23, 2025
    2 Awards Winner (Best Writer / Best Editor)
  • Mpumalanga International Film Festival
    Mpumalanga
    May 3, 2026
    Première
    Official Selection
  • Cannes Film Awards
    Cannes
    France
    May 4, 2026
    Nominée
Director Biography - SAADI BELGAID

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.

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Director Statement

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.