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Ajyal Short Film Programme 1: Hidden Layers
In a Beirut refugee camp after the Israeli bombardment, a young first responder passes the night with cards and friends, while the memory of the dead stays with him.
Beirut, in the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment. In a Palestinian refugee camp, a young first responder with the civil defence spends an ordinary night playing cards with his friends, trading jokes about girlfriends and the camp’s shiny new ambulance. But beneath the banter, he cannot separate his daily life from what he has seen in the rubble, and the martyrs he helped to recover. At home, his mother asks him to sing for her.

Credits

Director
Yumna Marwan
Producer
Ihsen Kammoun
Cinematographer
Ramzi Hibri
Editor
Mehdi Lachhab
Cast
Khattab Daher, Ghada Osman, Yousef Daher, Tarek Makdah, Wael Maarouf

About the Director

Yumna Marwan
Yumna Marwan is an actor and director from Beirut. For more than a decade, she has acted in independent films across the Arab world, including two features with Ghassan Salhab and two films with Mounia Akl, before taking lead roles opposite Juno Temple in ‘Little Birds’ and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Veil’. She studied anthropology and creative writing and worked as a journalist in Lebanon. ‘Prisoner