Film Funding

All Projects

Underdown

Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

Sarah Kaskas / Feature Documentary / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / 2019 / 90 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Social Issues, Immigration, Identity, Children, Creative Documentary, Women Issues

Synopsis

Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driver who lives in his car, a homeless Syrian kid, and a Lebanese woman and her family. Through a pulsating journey full of harsh realities and an unbreakable sense of humour, the film’s subjects convey glimmers of hope in the darkest of places.

Credits

Director
Sarah Kaskas
Producer
Liliane Rahal, Ines Meier

About the Director

Sarah Kaskas received her MFA in Cinematic Arts in 2011. Her thesis film, ‘Fugue’ (2011), toured to several festivals before being sold to BBC Arabic’s ‘Alternative Cinema’. In 2013, her animated short film ‘Wanderland’ won an award at the Co-Production Forum at the Stuttgart International Animation Festival, and was nominated for the Robert Bosch Film Prize in 2014. In 2016, Kaskas co-directed ‘Bread and Tea’, which was named Best Short Documentary at Iran’s Cinéma Vérité. Her upcoming feature documentary was nominated for the Robert Bosch Film Prize 2017 and received a production grant from the Doha Film Institute. She resides in Beirut and is an Assistant Professor of Film at the Lebanese American University.

Contacts

  • Co-Producer

    Pong

  • Main Contact

    Liliane Rahal

    Company: 
    Karaaj Films
    Email: 
    liliane.rahal@gmail.com

Questions regarding this project?

Contact

blog comments powered by Disqus

staging