Ajyal Film Festival 2024

All Films

Light

Ajyal Competition

Yassmina Karajah / Short Narrative / Canada, Jordan, Lebanon / 2014 / 13 min / Colour / DCP2K
In Arabic, English / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Drama, Religion, Immigration, Family, Identity
Qatar Premiere

Synopsis

Overwhelmed by anguish and far from the comforts of family, Omar, a young Lebanese man, speaks via cellphone from a Canadian hospital with his pleading mother, who gently tells him how to go about performing the Islamic pre-burial rituals. Quietly devastating, ‘Light’ sidesteps melodrama, relying on tight close-ups, stilted conversations and Omar’s incomplete actions to illustrate his feelings of paralysis. Ahmed Muslimani provides a finely nuanced performance that conveys Omar’s desperation, fear and loneliness, and lays bare a grief so unbearable it defies his comprehension.

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Credits

Director
Yassmina Karajah
Screenwriter
Yassmina Karajah
Producer
David Findlay, Jenna Hambrook
Editor
Jenna Hambrook
Cinematographer
Benjamin Houde-Hostland
Cast
Ahmed Muslimani, Souad Karim

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