14 minutes. One apartment. Your entire perception of reality? Shattered.
Sami and his wife Sarah are packing to move to the USA where they intend to open a restaurant. Rania, Sarah's sister, goes to their house to take them to the airport, but some unexpected and unforeseeable events take place in the apartment.
Direction
Hassouna turns domestic spaces into psychological battlegrounds
Writing
Every line of dialogue has two meanings — before and after
Director
Ahmed Hassouna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Second Intifada, the film uses the apartment as metaphor for Palestinian entrapment — the 'move to America' is the ultimate fantasy of escape that keeps slipping away.
Hassouna reportedly shot the apartment scenes in chronological order without showing the full script to Rasha Mahdi, so her confusion mirrors Sarah's. The rotating square was a practical in-camera effect achieved by rotating the entire set.
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