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THE JACKET

By Mathijs POPPE

Documentary - Post-Production 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM, LEBANON, FRANCE
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Mathijs POPPE
- Producer(s)
- Elisa HEENE (MIRAGE)
- Synopsis
- Jamal Hindawi (50), Palestinian, lives with his family in Shatila camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. He is currently working on a play that tells the story of an old jacket that symbolises the Palestinian identity. But the evening before the premiere, Jamal loses the theatre prop. He starts a nightly journey through the streets of Beirut and is confronted with a city in radical transition.