Short Films Competition | Lebanon | Arabic | 21 min
Majed, a 20-year-old man, is grieving the loss of his recently deceased mother. One day, he gets the shock of his life when he learns that she used to be a belly dancer. Torn between his relationship with his now-silent father, and Hanine, the woman who will help him overcome his grief; he takes a trip down memory lane in an attempt to discover the mysterious past of his mother.
Georges Hazim is a filmmaker from Lebanon. He earned his master’s degree in film directing from the Lebanese University. His short film Servants was presented at the 2017 Tripoli Film Festival. Above the Nest (2015) and Bad Trip (2017), both shorts, were screened at the Carthage Film Festival (CinePromesses). Hazim believes in the power of cinema and sees it as a vital means to express ideas that can contribute to achieving free, fair and fearless existence.
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