Search Film, Company, People...

GHOST HUNTING

اصطياد اشباح

By Raed ANDONI

Documentary - Completed 2017

Some Palestinians who were held in an Israeli detention center are assembled to re-enact their experience in an effort to heal.

Berlinale - EFM 2017

Glasshütte Original Documentary Award

Carthage Film Festival 2017

Philadelphia Film Festival 2017

Seattle International Film Festival 2017

Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2017

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- PALESTINE, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, QATAR, ITALY
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Raed ANDONI
- Synopsis
- Director Raed Andoni places a newspaper advertisement in Ramallah. He is looking for former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem. In his ad he asks that the men should also have experience as craftsmen, architects or actors. After a casting process that almost feels like role play, he arranges for a replica of the centre's interrogation rooms and cells to be built to scale inside a hall - under close supervision from the former inmates and based on their memories. In this realistic setting the men subsequently re-enact their interrogations, discuss details about the prison, and express the humiliation they experienced during their detention. Using techniques that are reminiscent of the so-called 'theatre of the oppressed' they work together to dramatise their real-life experiences. Their reconstruction brings long repressed emotions and undealt with trauma to the fore. Working on the film takes its toll on the men - both physically and mentally. The director also appears in front of the camera; not only is he creating a stage for his protagonists, he is also coming to terms with his own fragmented memories of imprisonment in Moskobiya thirty years previously.