Split-Screen
Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage
Fahad Al Khater, Nadia Al Khater / Short Narrative / Qatar / 30 min / Original Language: English / Interests: Thriller, Psychological
Synopsis
Two men, ‘A’ and ‘B’, are drinking coffee. They receive anonymous texts telling them their drink has been poisoned and will kill them in 24 hours. Only one of them can receive the antidote if they kill the other man. The two ‘players’ must wear a device that features a display of a video feed of the other camera with GPS coordinates.
At first, they are in denial, but once ‘B’ experiences symptoms, he leaves player ‘A’ alone at the café because of an argument. They try to defeat each other. Finally, ‘A’ and ‘B’ meet in the desert, but just before ‘B’ shoots ‘A’ in a standoff, a drone drops a package labelled ‘Antidote’. It is only enough for one person, and ‘B’ takes it, but suddenly dies. It was no antidote, rather, it was a ruse by ‘A’ to kill ‘B.’
Credits
- Director
- Nadia Alkhater, Fahad Al-Khater
- Screenwriter
- Nadia Alkhater, Fahad Al-Khater
About the Director
Fahad Al-Khater and Nadia Al-Khater are Qatari nationals born in 1992 and 1994, respectively. Though they both spent part of their childhood in San Diego, California, they returned to Doha where they both graduated in International Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar. They will be sharing screenwriting and directing responsibilities for their first short film ‘Split-Screen’. Together, they also wrote a second short film called “This is Not a Test” in the DFI-TorinoFilmLab’s Short Screenwriting Lab.