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The dark outside ( Jordan 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 14’

Direction: Darin J. Sallam

Screenplay: Natalie Al Shami

Director of Photography: Fuad Hindie

Sound: Nour Halawani

Music: from the film Elegy

Editing: Menna Ekram

Cast: Tala Naffaa Haifaa Al Agha Rabea Zaitoun Dania Maswadeh

Production: Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts

Synopsis

Nina is a 12 years old girl living in a strict and closed minded society. She has this phobia of the darkness. Nina will start throwing events in her school that will make her discover that the real darkness is not the absence of the light.

Réalisateur

Darin J. Sallam, is a Jordanian filmmaker. She had a passion in art since she was little. She fell in love with photography in an early age, which soon was followed by her passion in filmmaking , and participating in many international exhibitions and festivals . The "Dark Outside" a short film that was released in May 2012 won the best fiction short film in Franco Arab Film Festival.