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At an overcrowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year old runaway mother, fights the lurking shadows that attempt to steal the only dream that will set her free.
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.

Credits

Director
Rand Beiruty
Screenwriter
Rand Beiruty
Producer
Jude Kawwa

About the Director

Rand Beiruty
Rand Beiruty is a writer, director and creative producer. She holds a practice-based PhD from Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, focusing on questions of representation and participatory filmmaking. Beiruty has pitched her projects on international platforms and received awards from the Tribeca Film Institute, Mifa Animation du Monde, the Arab Cinema Center, and the European Network of Young
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