The Day I Lost My Shadow
Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage
Soudade Kaadan / Feature Narrative / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / 90 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Women, Drama, War, Fantasy, Road Trip
Synopsis
Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012. Between water outages and power cuts, she decides to take a day off work to go in search of a place to buy a gas cylinder. Along the way, she meets Jalal and his sister Reem, who are also looking for gas, and they agree to share a taxi for the trip. At a checkpoint, the soldiers suspect their driver to be an activist. Fearing arrest, he takes off running, abandoning his passengers in a small village on the outskirts of Damascus. There, Sana discovers that it is normal for people to lose their shadows every day, as if they lose something of themselves once they experience the war.
Credits
- Director
- Soudade Kaadan
- Screenwriter
- Soudade Kaadan
- Producer
- Amira Kaadan
- Production Company
- KAF Production Co.
About the Director
Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director, born in France. She studied theatre criticism in the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria and filmmaking in Saint Joseph University (IESAV) Lebanon. Her first feature
fiction film ‘The Day I Lost My Shadow’ was awarded the Lion of the Future Award for Best Debut Film at Venice Film Festival 2018 and has been screened in several festivals including TIFF, BFI, Busan and IFFR. Her recent short film ‘Aziza’ won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2019. Currently, she is working on her second feature film ‘Nezouh’ selected and awarded at Atelier de Cannes 2019.