The trailer debuted for Marta Bergman’s drama “The Silent Run” ahead of its world premiere in international competition at the Cairo Film Festival.
The film centers on Sara and Adam who, with their two-year-old daughter, entered Belgium illegally and are now trying to reach England. Crammed with other migrants in the back of a van, fear begins to take precedence over hope. Redouane, a police officer for 20 years, spends his nights tracking down smugglers on Belgium’s busy motorway network. That night, as his team tries to stop a van suspected of transporting migrants, everything changes.
The cast of the film, shot in French and Arabic, includes Salim Kechiouche, Zbeida Belhajamor, Clara Toros and Abda Razak Alsweha.
The screenwriters are Bergman, Camille Mol, Ely Chevillot and Sacha Ferbus.
The producers are Cassandre Warnauts and Jean-Yves Roubin for Frakas Productions, and Geneviève Lavoie and Richard Angers for Productions des Années Lumière.
International sales are handled by B-Rated Intl. International distributors so far include Cineclub Internazionale (Italy), Destiny (France), O’Brother (Benelux) and Axia (Canada).
Born in Bucharest, Bergman first worked as a freelance journalist for print and television, before turning to documentary filmmaking. His documentaries, which explore Romania and Roma communities, include “Clejani Stories, Histoires, Povesti…”, “Happy Stay”, “One Day My Prince Will Come”, “Bucharest, Anonymous Faces” and “The Ballad of the Snake, A Gypsy Story”.
In 2018, she directed her first fiction feature film “Alone at my wedding”, produced by Frakas Productions and shot between Belgium and Romania. It was selected at ACID in Cannes. “The Silent Run” is his second feature film.
