KAVALYE O DAM
directed by Sacha Teboul
France | 2025 | 9 mins
Short
Synopsis
Simon visits his grandmother Maryse at her nursing home. When he plays her an audio cassette that he found, Maryse’s body, suffering from Alzheimer’s, comes back to life and memories of her past in the West Indies resurface…Maryse takes us back to that ball night, when her lover from the past had to tell her that he was leaving by force for the Algerian war.
Film information
Year: 2025
Country: France
Runtime: 9 minutes
Language: French with English subtitles
Cast & Crew
Director: Sacha Teboul
Screenplay: Aodren Buart
Producer: Youssef Amar, Lorra Videv
Screening schedule
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
5:00 PM
as part of NYFW Shorts Program
Cobble Hill Cinemas
265 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Language
French with English subtitles
About the Director
Born in Paris in 1995, Sacha Teboul studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris before entering La Fémis’s directing programme in 2019. His artistic practice moves between cinema, reworked images and installation, with work presented in both film festivals and exhibition spaces. His films have been selected at festivals including IndieLisboa, Busan and Brive, while his visual art has featured in solo and group exhibitions. In 2023–2024, he was an artist-in-residence at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He is currently developing his first feature film, supported by funding from France’s CNC.
