Producer: Jacqui Davies
Executive producers: Michael Morris, Cressida Day, and Lizzie Francke
Co-producer: Ben Rivers
Featuring: Oliver Laxe
Director of Photography: Ben Rivers
Editors: Ben Rivers and Benjamin Mirguet
Supervising Sound Editor: Philippe Ciompi
Cast: As himself Shakib Ben Omar
Chief Bandit Ali Boumzgour
Bandits Abdelkader Bouchefra, Mohamed Bouhriri,
Aldelhadi Elbaz
Merchant Adberazak Aït El Kaïd
Oliver’s doubles Hamza Sekri, Mohamed Bohandi,
Cory Zacharia
Soldiers Azdine Ahchmi, Samir Hmidouch
Horses Nasser, Atbir, Amara, Sahar
Crew: First Assistant Director Lina Laraki
Sound Recordist Philippe Ciompi
Focus Puller / 1st AC Sarah Rollason
Stills Photographer Yuki Yamamoto
Service Producer Lamia Chraibi
Line Producer Yassin Marco Marroccu
Location Manager Jaouad El Kacimi
Second Location Manager Mourad Kamel
Casting Director Baha Choukri
Costume Designer Julie Verges
Set Designer Hassan Osfour
2nd AC Amine Boudour
Camera Trainee Tawfik Smaoui
Make-up Artists Aziz Agoujil, Imane Moulaoui
Special Effects Hassan Tibe
Fixers Braham Aït Iddar, Karim Zoubir, Hicham Chibane
Horse Wrangler Nahid Mohamed
Assistant Horse Wrangler Abderahim Ait Ben
Dog Wrangler Karim Azlag
Also featuring: Nadia Acimi, Said Agli, Badr Aït Said, Margarita Alboris, Abdelhamid Anwar, Ikram Anzouli, Hassan, Badiba, Javier Barbero, Soukayna Belghiti, Shakib Ben Omar, Samir Benayyad, Tawfik Bennani, Mohammed Bisbis, Patricia Charlin, Baha Choukri, Mounir El Bahri, Hamza El Hachimy, Amina El Halhouli, Akrame El Meziane, Foudel El Oiridi, Ahmed El Othmani, Hamid Fardjad, Santiago Fillol, Fatima Habib, Hicham Haidar, Ahmed Hammoud, Mauro Herce, Abdellatif Hwidar, Abderrahim Issoukine, Khalid Karraki, Felipe Lage, Hamid Latima, Jaouad Nani, Ilham Oujri, Mohamed Oummad, Jamal Quandil, Alejo Ramos-Sabugo Sampedro, Alvaro Redondo, Amanda Villavieja Garcia.
Post production
Re-recording Mixer Ernst Karel
Colourist Max Horton
Online Editor Matt Pamplin
Post Producer Laura Sharpley
Rushes Colourist Dan Crussell
Dolby Sound Consultant Peter Mendonca
Visual Effects Artist Marc Hutchings
Titles Design Fraser Muggeridge studio
Production Assistant Miranda Townsend
Additional Assistants Joseph Constable, Alex Borokowski
Translators Mohamed Azaanoun, Nagi Mikail,
Paula Lopez Zambrano
Production Accountant Shipleys LLP, MacIntyre Hudson LLP
Legal Services Jeremy Gawade, Lee and Thompson,
Shane Horgan, Lee and Thompson
E & O Insurance Charles Milnes & Company Ltd
Post production houses: Rushes Processing i dailies Ltd
Post Production House ONSIGHT
Re-recording Studio Art 4 Noise
Digital Imaging Peerless
35 mm Prints Cinema Printing Company
Dolby Mastering Point1Post
Production hire: Richmond Film Services, Aimimage, Four Corners
Original music by Carles Santos
“Early Hypnagog”
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe © 2015
“The” composed and performed by Nadja
Licensed by Broken Spine Productions
© Ah Syd Music 2007
FOR BFI
Director of Lottery Film Fund Ben Roberts
Head of Production Fiona Morham
Senior Development Executive Tally Garner
Production Finance Sofia Neves
Business Affairs Manager Virginia Burgess
Made with the support of
The Estate of Paul Bowles
Artangel International Circle, Special Angels and The Company of Angels
Arts Council England
BBC Radio 4
Delfina Foundation
Film and Video Umbrella
Jacqui Davies Limited
La Prod
Rouge International
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
The Wylie Agency
Zeitun Films
Special thanks
Oliver Laxe, Shezad Dawood, Mohammed Mrabet, Mike Ott, Cory Zacharia, Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Thanks
Craid Baldwin, Vanessa Branson, Robert Devereaux, Mati Diop, Mouad Ibno Bachir, Touria el Glaoui, Kate MacGarry, Mark Perenson, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Casbah des Arts, Agdz, John Dewhurst, WAM Consultant
'A Distant Episode' from A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories by Paul Bowles © 1988 by Paul Bowles, used with permission of the Wylie Agency LLC
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS by Ben Rivers uses footage generated in the production of Las Mimosas, film by Oliver Laxe, produced by Zeitun Films, Rouge International and LaProd
Image: (above) Ben Rivers, THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS (2015). Photograph: Production still by Yuki Yamamoto