I, OF AN ACCIDENT OR OF LOVE
International Short Film Contest 54 ED. 2026

France 2025 14' Fiction
In two distant cities, Adèle and Hadrien are preparing to leave everything behind for one last journey. As they prepare, they recount in a strange, poetic, and verbless language how, years earlier, an event had left a lasting mark on them: their meeting.

Khalil Cherti
Born in Strasbourg in 1976, Khalil Cherti is Franco-Moroccan. A self-taught writer-director, he learned his trade by shooting corporate films, adverts and trailers. In 2009 he directed and self-produced his first medium-length film, La Grande Muraille de Qin, which was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. In 2014, his second medium-length film, D’où que vienne la douleur, was selected for numerous festivals, including Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand. After directing his last film, No Man is an Island, he is currently working on his firsts features films.
TECHNICAL DATA
DIRECTION:
Khalil Cherti
SCRIPT:
Khalil Cherti, Loic Demey
PRODUCTION:
Les Tisserands production, Kazak Productions. Producción ejecutiva: Rachid Bahmani
EDITING:
Juliette Kempf
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jean Eudes Aboin
ORIGINAL MUSIC:
Ronan Martin, Arthur Philippot
SOUND:
Sébastien Crueghe
CAMERA:
Jean Eudes Aboin
CAST:
Geoffrey Bugnot, Yael Ciancilla
CONTACT:
kinzy@manifest.pictures
