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THE PASSENGERS

In a small retirement home from the north of France, fourteen Alzheimer patients keep wandering painfully, hours after hours, in search of a forgotten destination.
But here, their wish for departure is within reach.

  • Bruno Pieretti
    Director
  • Hélène Badinter
    Producer
  • Victor Hamelin
    Producer
  • Lara Orsoni
    Producer
  • Bruno Pieretti
    Producer
  • Xavier Thesnon Hily
    Crew
  • Antoine Bernardeau
    Crew
  • Bastien Burchi
    Crew
  • Sylvain Tessier
    Crew
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Les Passagers
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:33
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Austin
    United States
    October 26, 2021
    World premiere
    Austin Film Festival - official selection
Director Biography - Bruno Pieretti

Born in Paris in 1986 from a definitely mediterranean family, Bruno Pieretti started very early an eclectic career that brought him to be a teacher in poor suburbs, a peace-keeping soldier in Northern-Africa and a journalist in the middle-east.
After a first critically-acclaimed and multi-awarded short documentary about Syrian refugees, "THE PASSENGERS" is his second incursion in documentary cinema.

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