2024 | France, Jordan | Animation

Shadows (2024)

  • - - 10 mins
  • Director | Rand Beiruty
  • Writer | Rand Beiruty
  • Producer | Jude Kawwa

STATUS: In Distribution

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It’s Ahlam’s first time at an airport. But soon, the excitement of travelling to a new place is overshadowed by the melancholy of choosing to leave her past behind, indefinitely. At a large neon-lit departure hall, a blue deer guides us through some of her childhood memories and traumas. Similar to the travellers gruesomely devouring their food at the airport cafeteria, the barbaric reality of her child marriage strikes her. At 14, she gives birth to her child. At the airport security check, memories of her lonesome and painful childbirth take the shape of a fetus assembly line. The once disoriented deer metamorphoses into an unrelenting and fearless creature, ready to take on the world and embark on a new journey to heal and accomplish her dream of becoming a self-sufficient flight attendant.

Drama Traveler Beginnings Emotional Flight Attendant Travel Excitement Departure Blue Deer Memories Trauma Metamorphoses Journey
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