Public Phone
Made in Qatar - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2014
Leena Al-musalmani, Ethar Hassaan / Short Narrative / Qatar / 2013 / 4 min / Colour / DCP / In Arabic, English, Urdu / Arabic, English subtitles / Qatar Premiere
Rated: Parental guidance is advised. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
Synopsis
Few public spaces are as intimate as the inside of a telephone booth, that glass-and-metal box where we pour out our longings and fears. In ‘Public Phone’, four people from very different backgrounds make calls to their loved ones, who are in all corners of the globe. While the subjects of their calls are different, the paths of their conversations are parallel, so that we see and feel that despite their outward difference, they are all united in the human struggles they face.
About the Director
Leena Al-Musalmani is a filmmaker based in Qatar.
Ethar Ahmed Hassaan was born in Cairo in 1991. A recent graduate of Northwestern University in Qatar, she is a writer and director who currently works as a multimedia designer at ThePlanet. Alongside her work in community theatre with ‘The BuSSy Project’, Hassaan has written and directed a few short films, both narrative and documentary, and is currently working on ‘Ballet’, a short film about Cairo.
Credits
- Director
- Leena Al-musalmani, Ethar Hassaan
- Screenwriter
- Leena Al-Musalmani, Ethar Ahmed Hassaan
- Cast
- Zain Shahid, Awad, Nada Taha, Camilla Greene, Mayar Hamdan