Director: Mats Grorud
Script: Mats Grorud
Editing: Silje Nordseth, Carsten Meinich, Anders Bergland, Margrete Vinnem
Animation Supervisor: Pierre-Luc Granjon, Hefang Wei
Art Dir.: Rui Tenreiroi
Sound: Hata Shoji
Music: Nathanaël Bergèse
Voices: Pauline Ziadé, Aïssa Maïga, Saïd Amadis, Slimane Dazi, Lina Soualem, Bouraouia Marzouk, Darina Al Joundi
Production: ENK.TV, Frode Sobstad, Les Contes Modernes, Patrice Neza, Cinenic Film Ab, Annika Hellstrom
Distribution:
Jour2fête
9, rue Ambroise Thomas
75009 Paris
France
0033 1 40 22 92 15
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www.jour2fete.com
Year: 2018
Screening: 2019
DCP, Colour, 74 mn
French Version
Out of Competition Annecy Film Festival 2018
Premiere
In Beirut, Lebanon today. Wardi, a young Palestinian girl, lives with all her family in the refugee camp where she was born. Sidi, her greatgrandfather was one of the first refugees to settle there after having been forced to flee from his home village in 1948. On the day when Sidi entrusts the key of his former house in Galilee to her safekeeping, Wardi is afraid that he has lost hope of ever going back there one day. But how can each member of the family help the little girl, each in their own way, to bring this hope back to life?
“These people have all suffered enormously. They have lost members of their family or they have seen them leave for other parts of the world. They are stuck in the camp, waiting for politicians to find a solution to their problems. They feel forgotten… It was important for me as well to paint the portrait of people overflowing with humour, warmth and kindness. I wanted to show that they live in hope, which makes a strong contrast with everything they have endured.” Mats Grorud.
