The Runner
Synopsis
Forced to join Morocco's Junior Athletics team at 14, he was soon an international champion. But while he won gold medals for Morocco, he and his family were being arrested, detained and tortured in prison by Morocco for their independence activism.
In 2003, as he won a crucial race in France, he pulled out the Sahrawi flag - illegal in Morocco. He immediately became both a refugee and a hero to his people. Even in France, he suffers attacks, and his family are harassed, detained, tortured and even killed by the Moroccan regime.
The Runner follows Salah over three critical years in his life. As he turns 30, the Arab Spring is born in a protest camp in Western Sahara. The film looks at the burden of being a hero and asks "How long, before you stop running"?
Details
- Year
- 2012
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 93 min
- Format
- XDCAM EX
- Director
-
Saeed Taji Farouky 1st Feature
- Producer
- Elhum Shakerifar
- Co-Producer
- Estelle Robin You, Rachel Lysaght
- Executive Producer
- Mike Chamberlain
- Editor
- Emiliano Battista
- Director of Photography
- Saeed Taji Farouky
- Sound
- Joe Lewis
- Composer
- Joe Lewis
- Associate Producer
- Patricia Tobin Kubal
- Production Manager (UK)
- Marie-Thérèse Garvey
- Production Manager (France)
- Emmanuelle Jacq
- Additional camera
- Toufique Ali, Afshin Dehkordi, Marie-Thérèse Garvey, Farhad Mirza, Elhum Shakerifar, Jo Metson Scott, Hikaru Toda
- Additional Editing
- Gareth Keogh
- Location Sound
- Brendan Butler, Joe Lewis
- Additional Location Sound
- Marie Frison, Elhum Shakerifar
- Stills Photographer
- Jo Metson Scott
- Archive and Research Assistant
- Sarah Saey
- Translations
- Nora Allali, Dominic Bennett, Sarra Elatanabi, Juliette Hargreave, Mohamed Sulaiman Labat, Clémence Sebag, Benedict Stainer
- Online
- Peter Appleyard
- Colourist
- Mat Troughton
- Dubbing Mixer
- Joe Lewis
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