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The Invitation
2022 | Color | 79:00

The desert is calling—yet Fabrizio Maltese’s journey begins with the ocean. When he accepts Mauritian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s invitation to continue the film that he and the late Pol Cruchten had initiated together, the project takes on a new symbolic dimension. But as Fabrizio travels solo to meet with the director, fate has other plans.


Country: Luxemburgo
Direction: Maltese; Fabrizio
Script: Maltese; Fabrizio, Roelants; Stephan
Production: Geiben; Jeanne, Maltese; Fabrizio
Photography: Maltese; Fabrizio
Sound: Mellet; Arnaud, Jorge; Diana, Juret; Anthony
Music: Sevindik; Emre
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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