A Short Film About Kids
Synopsis
Four kids from the refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life.
Festivals
SELECTIONS
Izmir International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2023.
Pöff Shorts, Estonia, 2023.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2024.
Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2024.
Festival Le temps d'une Lune, France, 2024.
MICE Film Festival, Spain, 2024.
L'autre Festival, France, 2024.
Documed, Tunisia, 2024.
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2024.
Atlanta Film Festival, USA, 2024.
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2024.
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Script: Ibrahim Handal
DOP: Ibrahim Handal
Editing: Ibrahim Handal, Hayat Laban
Sound: Soud Hifawi
Art direction: Yazan Abu Salameh
Production: Ibrahim Handal, Wisam Al Jafari
Version
Original: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English
Format
16:9 (Letterbox 4:3)
DCP, ProRes, H264, 5.1 sound, or stereo
Ibrahim Handal is a cinematographer and filmmaker whom graduated in Cinematography in 2019 from Dar Al-Kalima University. He worked as a director of photography on several short films: Bethlehem 2001 (2020, Officially selected in Locarno, Clermont Ferrand, Busan and many others) AMBIENCE by Wissam Al Jafari (2019, Cannes Cinéfondation winner), SAWSAN (2019), BETWEEN YOU AND ME (2020). He directed three short films: COLD (2017, 5 ', experimental), HIM AND I (2019, 13', fiction) and BETHLEHEM 2001 (2020).He also worked on several feature film productions in Palestine in the camera and lighting departments. Ibrahim is in development of his first feature film.
