Director: Alicia Mendy

Prod.: Amka Films (Rhea Plangg), Guddi Pictures (Iman Djionne)

Senegal/Switzerland, 29 min

After a parasite contaminated all of Dakar’s drinking water supplies, a private pharmaceutical company began developing pills to neutralize it. A young man who could no longer afford his pills realizes as the days passed without his treatment that he had never been so lucid.

• Blackstar Film Festival 2024

• Le 47e Festival International Du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand

• Short Film Competition FESPACO 2025

• Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Award for the Best Swiss Shool Film 2023 (Winner)

• Rio de Janeiro, 34th International Short Film Festival Rio de Janeiro (Best Director)

• Official Selection I 54th Tampere Film Festival

• Official Selection I 36.International Short Film Festival Dresden