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ATTENTE - WAITING
year 2005 lenght 90' color 35mm country France-Palestine
directed by Rashid Masharawi
Screenplay Rashid Masharawi, Oscar Kronop
Cast Areen Omari (Bissan), Mohmaud Massad (Ahmad), Yousset Baroud (Lumičre)
Cinematography Jacques Besse
Art direction Houssein Baydoun
Editing Jacques Witta
Music RegMusic Factory, Ralph El Khoury & Elie Barbar
Producers Setareh Farsi, Rashid Masharawi
Production
Silkroad Production
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synopsis
Before leaving Palestine to settle abroad, director Ahmad accepts one last job. He must audition actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre. On the road with interviewer Bissan and her cameraman, “Lumičre”, Ahmad goes in search of talent in the numerous refugee camps of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Ahmad guides the auditioning actors into dramatizing what best embodies their destiny: waiting. He comes to realize the destiny of all refugees is much the same as his own. Although Ahmad is sick and tired of the insurmountable difficulties of life in Palestine, he may end up letting the opportunity for his long-awaited exile slip away…
In recent Palestinian movies, such as Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Hassad or Waiting by Rashid Mashrawi, one can discern a new tenor and a new character: the tired hero. Ahmad (the director himself?) is a Palestinian film-maker who, exhausted, in vain hopes for its normalisation, for political truce, for the long-awaited Palestinian State. The martyrdom becomes more and more of a burden to him. As he says, he is fed up with shouting “Free Palestine!” again and again. He is tired of waiting, so he agrees to make a movie not about war and martyrdom, but on hope. His travel with a camera is a meaningful metaphor, due to the form of a “movie about a movie”, wherein the Palestinian life is shown as a sort of never-ending rehearsal, infinite preparations for something that is never going to happen. The Palestinian life becomes of ”a theatre performance”, in front of the entire world – but nobody knows who is directing the play.
(Tadeusz Sobolewski)
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