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One night, a man with no memory appears in Jericho and sets out to uncover his identity. As his past unravels, he is drawn into a grieving mother’s tragedy and a town’s suspicions, forcing a choice between justice and survival.
On the holiest night of Ramadan – Lailat Al Qadr – a man wakes on a deserted road with complete amnesia. He stumbles into a mosque and begs the men there for help. With a mixture of suspicion and sympathy, they let him stay. Then he sets out with Abed, a local man, to search for his wallet and ID. Meanwhile, Um Firas, a grieving mother, decides to clear out her dead son’s clothes. Firas killed himself months ago, leaving no note – only a silence that poisoned her life. The Amnesiac retrieves fragments of memory: images of streets, stories of youth murdered by the occupation. Yet no one in the town recognises him. When he arrives at Um Firas’s home, he realises that he is an Israeli agent. The Amnesiac tries to flee the town, but Abed confronts him, and the Amnesiac kills him without hesitation. Now Jericho faces an impossible choice: send him home to Tel Aviv, where he will escape justice, or keep him and risk invasion. Meanwhile, the Amnesiac must retrieve any memory that might explain why he came here. Only he knows why Firas killed himself, and only he can unravel the truth for his mother.

Credits

Director
Dima Hamdan
Screenwriter
Dima Hamdan
Producer
Tony Copti, Jiries Copti, Yasmeen Abu-Nuwar, Peter Williams
Co-Producer
Thibaut Amri, Amel Bouzid, Catherine Chagnon
Production Company
Fresco Films, Desert Rose Productions

About the Director

Dima Hamdan
Dima Hamdan is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin. She has directed several short films since 2009. Her latest short film, ‘Blood Like Water’, travelled to over 80 festivals worldwide, winning 10 Best Short Film awards. It is also in the film archives of Yale University, Emory University and Williams College. Dima began her career in journalism, spending most of it as a corr
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