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.

A film by Raed Andoni

France / Palestine / Switzerland / Qatar / 2017, Documentary form, 94 min · Colour, Arabic / English

With
Ramzi Maqdisi (Abu Atta)
Mohammed "Abu Atta" Khattab (himself)
Raed Andoni (the director)
Atef Al-Akhras (the set dresser)
Wadee Hanani (the assistant director)
Adnan Al-Hatab (the "father" and set builder)
Abdallah Moubarak (the blacksmith)
Anbar Ghannan (the groom and poet)
Raed Khattab (the cheerful prisoner)
Monther Jawabreh (the visual artist)

Written and directed by
Raed Andoni

Director of Photography
Camille Cottagnoud

Editor
Gladys Joujou

Sound Design
Nicolas Becker

Sound
Olivier Claude

Production Design
Dominique Treibert

Assistant Director
Wadee Hanani

Production Manager
Bassem Jerbawi

Producer
Palmyre Badinier

Co-producers
Nicolas Wadimoff, Philippe Coeytaux, Raed Andoni

Produced by
Les Films de Zayna

Co-production
Akka Films, Bernex
Dar Films, Ramallah

World sales

UDI

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AR


أسرى فلسطينيون سابقون، يعيدون تمثيل الأحداث التي تعرَّضوا لها في مركز للتحقيق، معروف باسم "المسكوبية" في القدس المحتلّة. حيث يقدمون صورة حقيقيّة عن العنف الإسرائيلي ضد الفلسطينيين، تُعيد رسم الملامح المختلفة لمناخٍ غير إنسانيّ يفرضه المحقّقون الإسرائيليون على الأسرى، وتعكس معالم مركز التحقيق هذا، وظروف الاعتقال، وآليات التحقيق، والزنازين التي يسجَن فيها الفلسطينيون.

رائد أندوني مخرج فلسطيني يشتغل في السينما المستقلة منذ عام 1997. أنتج عددا من الأفلام الوثائقية التي حازت على جوائز عالمية مثل "الرحلة الداخلية"، و"مباشر من فلسطين"، و"غزو"، و"ارتجال" الذي نال منة جائزة الثقافة والفن في مسابقة البحر المتوسط العالمية للأفلام الوثائقية عام 2006. وهو من مؤسسي "دار الإنتاج السينمائي" ومقرها رام الله


: إخراج
Raed Andoni

: تمثيل
Ramzi MAQDISI

Source:
www.annabamedfilms.org/ar/film/822