Synopsis
While reflecting on the present, a young Palestinian recalls childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. By trying to understand how his parents led him though those difficult times.
Festivals
- Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, 2020.
- Medfilm Festival, Italy, 2020.
- Palestinian Film Festival in Romania, 2020.
- Bristol Palestinian Film Festival, UK, 2020.
- Palestine - Filmer c'est exister, France, 2020.
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2021.
- Nazra Palestine short Film Festival, Venice, Italy, 2021.
- Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2021.
- Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2021.
- Les percéides, Canada, 2021.
- Jayu, Canada, 2021.
- Courts d'un soir, Canada, 2021.
- Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Canada, 2021.
- Twin Cities Arab film Festival, USA, 2021.
- Boston Palestine Film Festival, USA, 2021.
- London Palestine Film Festival, UK, 2021.
- Ciné-Palestine, France, 2023.
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Cast: Hind Abushkaidem- Yousef Abushakaidem- Muhammad Mughrabi-Karam al-Salaymeh
Script: Ibrahim Handal
DOP: Ibrahim Handal
Editing: Ibrahim Handal | Bilal Abu Alia
Sound: Saliba Rishmawi
Production: Ibrahim Handal, Wisam Aljafari
Version
Original: Arabic, English
Subtitles: French, English
Format
16:9/Stereo
DCP/AppleProRes/H264
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.
