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THE CURVE

المنعطف

By Rifiqi ASSAF

Road movie - Completed 2014

Radi, who leads a reclusive life in his own van, finds himself on a road trip with three strangers that
alters his clockwork and very private lifestyle.

Festivals
& Awards

Dubai DIFF 2016

San Francisco 2016

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Road movie, First film
- Countries
- JORDAN, FRANCE, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, EGYPT
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Rifiqi ASSAF
- Writer(s)
- Rifiqi ASSAF
- Cast
- Ashraf BARHOUM, Fatena LAYLA, Mazen MOUDAM
- Producer(s)
- Rula NASSER (The Imaginarium films ), Mohammad HEFZY (Film Clinic), Xénia MAINGOT (EAUX VIVES PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- One night, Radi, who leads a reclusive life in his own van- a VW microbus, hears a shrilling scream in the distance. Despite his
  fears of others, he challenges himself by switching on the lights of his home. With the seemingly trivial switching on of a light,
  he finds himself on a road trip that alters his clockwork and very private lifestyle.
  Starting with the sheltering of the screaming woman, Laila, a recently divorced Palestinian/Syrian traveling back to Damascus,
  the adventure continues and eventually introduces two others into Radi’s mobile home. Sami, after escaping Lebanon during
  the Lebanon war of 2006, the Lebanese artist is found struggling on the side of a road, after which his car broke down. The
  second character, a mysterious Jordanian policeman, who asks many questions all the way long. All characters encompass
  variance degrees of experience, pain, fear and a hopeful outlook on change. Within this journey, they come to realize they share
  much more than they would have ever thought likely. On the road, challenging and self-reflective events provoke the individuals
  in enlightening self-revolutionary ways where the thin line between reality and illusion fades away

THE CURVE

المنعطف

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