A Short Film About a Chair
Synopsis
A lonely chair on an abandoned balcony, a photographer watching it days and nights, a strange thing happens that will change the life of the chair for ever.
Festivals
AWARDS
Special Mention
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Best Auteur Short
Cecinema Festival, Italia, 2024
SELECTIONS
Slamdance Film Festival, USA, 2024
ReFrame Film Festival, Canada, 2024
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2024
Festival Ciné-Palestine, France, 2024
Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico, 2024
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, 2024
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, USA, 2024
Cecinema Festival, Italia, 2024
Director: Ibrahim Handal
Script: Ibrahim Handal
DOP: Ibrahim Handal
Sound: Saliba Rishmawi
Editing: Ibrahim Handal
Music: Charlie Rishmawi
Set Design: Wanda Handal
Cast: Michele Contani - Wanda Handal - Karam Alsalaymeh - Bisho Elmesmes
Production: Ibrahim Handal - Wisam Aljafari
Version
Original Arabic, English and French
English subtitles
Format
16:9/Stereo
DCP, Pro Res, 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.
