Tania decides to take her horse Fantas to meet her friends in her working-class neighborhood. By sharing her passion, she seeks to bring together two parts of herself, two worlds that have never crossed paths before and which will collide in an urban tale with surreal overtones.
Halima Elkhatabi graduated from Institut National de l’Image et du Son of Montréal (INIS) where she received the Excellence Scholarchip, and started her career as a director and a writer for documentaries. She then scripted short fictions including, La barricade (2009), which won Best Short Film at the International Fantasia Film Festival 2011, the Cinema Pioneers Scholarship from Ciné-Québec and the Best Short Fiction film at the Festival international de cinéma jeunesse de Rimouski. In 2011, she was finalist of SODEC’s Cours écrire ton court contest for her script, La roue. Fantas (2024) is her second short film of fiction as a director.
