If the fish hadn’t opened its mouth, it never would have been caught.

Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in prison. He meets Ibrahim, a fraudster who ruins his last hope of proving his innocence. Ahmad is awakened by the realisation that the life he has in prison might be better than the one he has on the outside.

Credits

Director

Mahmoud Al Massad

Screenwriter

Mahmoud Al Massad

Producer

Thanassis Karathanos Karathanos, Omar Massad, Dima Hamdallah, Julius Ponten

Cast

Ahamd: Ahmad Barjas - confirmed
El Mor: Faris Mhana - Not yet
Khaled : Ali Soliman - Not yet
Uncle : Sammy Elwafa - confirmed
Shawish ali : Motasem Fahmawi - confirmed

About the Director

Mahmoud Al Massad

Jordanian filmmaker Mahmoud Al Massad has received international critical acclaim for his documentaries ‘Shatter Hassan’ (2001), ‘Recycle’ (2007) and ‘This Is My Picture When I Was Dead’ (2010), while reaching large audiences in the West, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. ‘Recycle’ received the World Cinema Cinematography Award at Sundance in 2008 and screened at more than 70 international film

Producers

Dima Hamdallah

Dima Hamdallah received her BA in Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo and has worked as a freelance journalist. She worked at the Royal Film Commission – Jordan from 2007 to 2011, programming international film events. She obtained a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Sheffield in 2010, producing short television and radio programmes. She participated in the Producers’ Network at the Festival de Cannes and L’ Atelier in 2012 to develop the multi-award-winning script for ‘Blessed Benefit’.

Contacts

Doha Film Institute

Initiatives

DFI Events

Media

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