He is ready to go to visit his parents when he stops to watch TV. The TVC in which he starred in on the air. Since that day he is no more the unknown guy. He is juggling with the actor, the author and the spectator.
Grey refuses the dullness of his city, he creates his own life in colours…
A bunch of friends go to the Bekaa valley to buy some cannabis. The dealer asks them to take a metal box to some address in Beirut…
In the beginning was Palestine, just when the story of Younes’ life began. Younes sometimes went under the name of Abou Salem, sometimes the Man and some other times Ibrahim’s father. This was also when the story of his wife Nahila began – she became his bride at the age of 12, she was to breast-feed their first baby during the exhausting walks as she fled with the other villagers towards the North and left behind their burnt-down house. He would visit her in Bab El Chams, a cave in Galilee and tell her about Saladin and Nasser and Nahil believed his tales.
The film visualises the concept of displacement of the Palestinian people and how Palestine lives in their memory and in their daily life in their “exile”.
This is an ICE project developed at SWITCH for TAFE OUTREACH held at the Cow Shed – Wentworthville Youth Service in 2005.
This is a love story between a boy and a girl. Their parents don”t know about it until the girl’s uncle discovers it. Facing him, she denies the accusation. Both are forced to swear on the Koran, after which she’s scared that God will blind her. Only by praying she can be saved from punishment.