Synopsis
Taha, a 50-year-old teacher, faints and then discovers he can only walk backwards. Taha’s life begins to unravel and with limited resources he desperately searches for a solution.
Festivals
Director: Rami Jarboui
Script: Rami Jarboui
DOP: Ahmed Thabet
Sound: Yazid Chebbi
Editing: Ghalia Lacroix
Music: Mehdi Ahmadi - Souhayl Guesmi - Rami Harrabi
Art direction: Fatma Madani
Cast: Noomane Hamda - Salha Nasraoui - Hawwa Ben Hmida
Production: Sarra Ben Hassen & Meryam Joobeur (Blue Instinct) - Ramses Mahfoudh (Godolphin Films) - Bruno Smadja (Good Rush)
Version
Original: Arabic
Subtitles: English & French
Format
2.35/5.1
DCP, Pro Res, H264
Writer / director Rami Jarboui was born in Tunis in 1990 and graduated from the Superior Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba (Tunisia). His short film “Soup” won first prize at the Mobile Film Festival in 2017. After that, he embarked on his first experimental short “Eidos” selected in JCC Carthage Film Festival and Berlin Experimental Film Festival. Rami is developing an animation short "The bird's placebo" with the support of the CEE animation workshop and "Trash Cemetery," a documentary feature. “Straight Backward” is his first short live action.
