THE CROSSING · KAINO70
Disclaimer and production statement
This page states plainly how THE CROSSING was made, what it is, and what it is not. It is published for festivals, broadcasters, distributors, and viewers.
1 · AI-generated work
THE CROSSING is an AI-assisted cinematic production. Its images and moving images were created using generative artificial-intelligence tools, directed shot by shot by a human author. There is no live-action photography in this work, no physical set, no on-camera performer, and no captured location footage. Every frame is synthetic.
Creative authorship - screenplay, structure, character design, staging, editorial rhythm, sound design and final cut - is human. The tools rendered; they did not decide.
2 · A work of fiction
THE CROSSING is fiction. The story, the events depicted, the institutions shown, and the outcome of the criminal case at the centre of the plot are invented for dramatic purposes. Nothing in this work is presented as a factual account of any real incident.
3 · Characters are invented
All characters - including Joseph Kabongo and Sylvie - are fictional creations. They are not based on, named after, or intended to represent any specific living or deceased person. Any resemblance to a real individual, in name, appearance, biography, or circumstance, is coincidental and unintended.
4 · Generated likenesses and voices
The faces, bodies, and voices appearing in this work are synthetic. They were generated from text descriptions and are not derived from the likeness, performance, or voice of any identifiable real person. No performer’s likeness or voice has been cloned, replicated, or reused.
If you believe a generated likeness or voice inadvertently resembles a real, identifiable person, please contact us at the address below and we will review it in good faith.
5 · Historical and geographic setting
The work is set against a recognisable contemporary backdrop - the Sahara, Libya, the Mediterranean, and Montreal - and draws on the general reality of migration routes. This is a dramatic setting, not reportage. Locations, agencies, camps, officials and procedures are fictionalised or composited. No depicted place should be read as a documentary record of that place.
6 · This is not a documentary
THE CROSSING must not be presented, programmed, catalogued, or marketed as a documentary, docudrama, or reconstruction of real events. It is a scripted psychological thriller. Any festival, platform, or broadcaster listing should classify it as fiction.
7 · Subject matter and duty of care
The work depicts detention, violence, displacement, and death. It was written with the intention of treating migration as a human experience rather than a spectacle. It is not a substitute for the testimony of people who have lived it, and it does not claim to speak for them.
8 · Credits and rights
- Written and directed by M. Benembarek - credited as AI Conductor.
- Produced by KAINO70.
- Format - three episodes.
- Rights - all rights in the screenplay, the generated imagery, the sound design, the edit, and the title THE CROSSING are reserved by KAINO70.
No part of this work may be reproduced, re-uploaded, re-edited, used as training data, or redistributed without written permission. Press and festival use of supplied stills and trailer material is permitted with credit to KAINO70.
9 · Third-party tools
Generative image, motion, upscaling and audio tools from third-party providers were used under their respective terms of service. Their vendors are not authors of this work, do not endorse it, and bear no responsibility for its content. Editorial assembly, sound and colour were completed in a conventional post-production suite.
10 · Contact and corrections
For festival programming, press material, rights enquiries, or to raise a concern about anything on this page, contact KAINO70 via kaino70.vercel.app. We will correct any factual error on this page promptly.
Last reviewed - 2026.