FALL
EGYPT 18 MIN
RUSSIAN PREMIERE
ABOUT
The elderly are trying to accept their presence in the ( nursing home ) by remembering their former lives that will not return.
DIRECTOR
YOUSEF ABODAN
Born in 25th of June 1989, Aleppo, Syria. While studying in high school, worked in the theater as an actor. In 2011, traveled to Egypt to study film directing in the High Cinema Institute in Cairo. During the studies, directed two short fiction films and worked as an assistant director in other short films, long features and advertisements. Currently working on a short fiction as the graduation project.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Why we build places to consecrate emptiness and waiting? "Fall" is a film about people who resist their present with their past.
SECTION
Short Competition 2016