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DEAF

Director:

Roy Arida

Runtime:

00:35:00

Country:

Lebanon

Genre:

Short Feature

FILM SYNOPSIS

Beirut, Lebanon.
Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill the last wishes of the deceased: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

DIRECTOR SYNOPSIS

Born in Beirut, Roy studied cinema at la Fémis, Paris, in the directing department.

Since he graduated, he has been pursuing his work as a director still in between France and Lebanon, with an equal interest for fiction and documentary.

In 2012, he founded STANK, a production house based in Paris.

CAST & CREW

Director: Roy Arida

Writer: Roy Arida

Producers: Roy Arida, Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun, & Vincent Le Port

Key Cast

Tracy Younes as "Tamara"
Hassan Zbib as "Hassan"
Ahmad Baydoun as "Rami"
Zalfa Chelhot as "The Mother"