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Uncle Nash’at ( Jordan 2011 )

Color: Documentary, color, 90’

Direction: Aseel Masnour

Screenplay: Aseel Masnour

Director of Photography: Cindy Le Templier

Sound: Yaha Al Abdullah

Music: Ayman Zarqan

Editing: Mohammad Kareem Shehabi - Farah Fayed

Cast: No actors, all real people

Production: Shashat Multimedia Productions

Synopsis

Nashaat is a Palestinian fighter who was killed by the Israelis in 1982. When his nephew Aseel comes across a fact that makes him doubt the circumstances of his uncle’s death, he embarks on a quest to find the truth. Not only does this quest lead him to disturbing facts, but it also makes him understand the real reasons behind his broken relationship with his father during his childhood.

Réalisateur

A JordanianPalestinian filmmaker, born in Baghdad and moved to Jordan. he graduated from Walden University (Minnesota, U.S.A.) . He won the “Amman Filmmakers Cooperative” Award of Best Filmmaker of the year” 2004 for his film “Alert Guns” and the special mention award for Arab film in Jordan short film festival 2006, for his film “Little Feet”.