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Made in Qatar - Short Films Programme
A son returns home to care for his mother, filming the last year they will spend together.
A son returns home to care for his mother, filming on Super 8 the last year they will spend together. Sebastian Delascasas began shooting during her treatment without knowing what the film would become, and the grain of the format holds what words could not. Moving between English and Spanish, this is an essay film built from small gestures, routines and shared silence, holding its questions open rather than explaining loss, and staying close to something as it disappears.

Credits

Director
Sebastian Delascasas
Screenwriter
Sebastian Delascasas
Producer
Sebastian Delascasas, Reuben Hamlyn
Cinematographer
Sebastian Delascasas
Editor
Reuben Hamlyn, Sebastian Delascasas
Music
Ilyaa Ghafouri

About the Director

Sebastian Delascasas
Sebastian Delascasas is a Colombian filmmaker born in Bogotá and raised in Doha. A graduate of NYU Tisch, his debut short ‘Promise’ premiered at the Indy Shorts International Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Directorial Debut, and later became a Vimeo Staff Pick. ‘In the Silence After’, developed in Doha Film Institute’s Filmmaking Lab with Rithy Panh, was selected for the 79th editi