In this intense short by director Ella Bennett, we are taken through the tangles of trauma, through the eyes of a Syrian refugee as he struggles with the guilt of survival.
Production Details and Description
*Warning, this film contains scenes of explicit nature which some viewers may find upsetting*
NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL PRESENTS
DUST
Synopsis
When an isolated Syrian caretaker at a secondary school, stumbles across a student who reminds him of his daughter, his mental state begins to unravel as memories of an horrific event resurface.
Director
Ella Bennett
Producer
Lennard Ortmann
Writer
Lydia Rynne
Cinematographer
Matt Gillan
Production Designer
Anna Rzezniczek
Editor
William Winfield
Composer
Stefano Fasce
Sound Designer
Adam Shuttleworth
Sound Recordist
Yuanbo Chen
Colourist
Vlad Barin
Colourists Assistant
Tash Hicks
Online Editor
Andrea Lo Priore
Foley Artist
Adam Douglas Jones
Production Manager
Dagmara Plazewska
CAST
Ibby
Derek Horsham
Maya
Maryam Grace
Isra
Sophia Decaro
Teenagers
Toby Pavitt
Michael Gamble
Ben Ayers
Radio Newsreader
Olympia Christofinis
Orchestra Members
Salome Mamaskhlisi
Christian Antoine
Johnny Mutch
Raquel Cipriano
Bikramjit Gurm
Harry Fakouras
Giulia Marelli
Joe Allotta
Kader Beddiaf
Dead Orchestra Members
Kader Beddiaf
Toufik
Erwan Skowronski
Lavinia Scifoni
Lila Messahli
Juliette Robuchon
Chloe Pierron
Pupils
Anke Netthöfel
Alessia Fragonese
Hugo Toppot
Trevor Sames- Mance
Tara Hodgson- Love
Rebecca Bates
Kate Ilsley
Daisy Weldon
Ellie Bindman
Gabrielle Jones
Rebecca Cattle
Crew
1st Assistant Director
Sarah Arzoine
2nd Assistant Director
Gabriel Garcia Lippe
3rd Assistant Director
Anke Netthöfel
Script Supervisor
Sara Romanelli
1st Assistant Camera
Catharina Zema
2nd Assistants Camera
Gergana Popova
Alex Rupprecht
DIT
Hugo Toppott
Gaffers
Shaun Waldie
Amir Moulfi
Sparks
Jake Buckley
Jeff Cellis
Alex Martin
Art Department Assistants
Anna Oldham- Cooper
Isabella Farley
Josefine Lindmark
Evie Hauler- Davies
Boom Operator
Chanitra Limpiroi
Make Up Artist
Wiktoria Deero
Madalina Elena Malan
Make Up Artist Assistant
Lorna Crowther
Millie Begg
Costume Designer
Alessia Fragnoese
Still Photographers
Joshua Brown
Karolina Wielocha
Runners
Jonathan Way
Joe Carty
Tom Parkinson
Holly Mann
Thanks To
The Yehudi Menuhin Hall & School
Beaconsfield High School
Chalfonts Community College
Chris Smith at SLS
Steven Andrews
Alice Benzing
James Lawrence
Carla Tarnawski
Katherine Burke
CHEAT
Tine Lykke Jensen
Diverse Directors Workshop Sponsors
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and EON Productions
Creative Skillset
County Hall Arts
Platinum Sponsor For Talent Development 2018
Channel 4
Key Partner Sponsors 2018
British Broadcasting Corporation
Film Distributors’ Association
ITV
Sky
UK Cinema Association
Key Partner Funders 2018
Creative Skillset Film Skills Fund
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Patrons 2018
The Bertha Foundation
Dana and Albert R. Broccoli Foundation
David Elstein, Warburg Pincus
The David Lean Foundation
Duncan Kenworthy OBE, Toledo Productions Ltd
Entente Distribution Ltd
Foundation for the Sports and the Arts
The Leverhulme Trust
The Lew Grade Memorial Fund
Ingenious
Richard Dunn Memorial Fund
The UIP Charitable Trust
YouTube
Virgin Atlantic
Extract from Beethoven 5th Symphony
Performed by Berlin Philharmonic in 1913
Conductor Arthur Nikisch
The characters and situations in this films are fictitious and any similarity with living individuals is a coincidence.
BFI/Skillset Film Academy and Lottery-funded
© National Film and Television School 2018
