Ghassan Sidawi

Ghassan Sidawi takes a trip to get to know more about a late friend of his family. While doing so, he learns what it feels to be a lost Palestinian artist from home.

In 2018 Lebanon, a young Palestinian man goes to school wearing a keffiyeh to revolute against the USA declaration of Jerusalem becoming the capital of Israel. Then, he encounters a fellow classmate that could potentially be his new friend amidst self-lost.

Based on a True Story In 1983, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Mustafa, a 19-year-old Palestinian, works at Al-Raee Hospital in the city of Sidon. While on duty, an Israeli military patrol suddenly enters the hospital and orders him to prepare tea for the soldiers. What begins as a simple request quickly turns into a life-defining moment. Standing alone in the hospital kitchen, Mustafa is confronted with an impossible choice: should he seize the opportunity and kill the soldiers, poison their tea, or step back and preserve his own life?

After the death of his close uncle, Ali Akil goes down a path of continuous self-destructive coping mechanisms and indulgence to clear his guilty conscience after his relationship with his uncle turned rough during his final days. He shares his story in this film as a final attempt of redemption and to reconnect with his late uncle.