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The Last Friday ( Jordanie, EAU 2011 )

Color: Fiction color 88’

Direction: Yahya Alabdallah

Screenplay: Yahya Alabdallah

Director of Photography: Rachel Aoun

Sound: Falah Hannoun

Music: Trio Joubran

Editing: Mohammed Sulieman

Cast: Ali Sulieman Yasmine Massri Fadi Arida Nadira Omran

Production: The Royal Film Commission

Synopsis

When a forty-year-old divorced father discovers that he needs to undergo an operation which he can not afford within the next 4 days, he finds himself forced to deal with the life he isolated himself from for the longest time. Once a successful car salesman, he is forced to work on a taxi. He is now living alone, disconnected from his new reality and engulfed in the sadness of his loss.

Réalisateur

Yahya Alabdallah is a director, producer and a literary critic. Born in Libya 1978, brought up in Saudi Arabia. Yahya has made eight short films as well as written Alienation: An Analytic Study of Tahar Benjelloun’s Fictitious Characters’. Yahya founded "ME Films" in 2005, which is an independent production company based in Amman-Jordan which assists him in making his films and help create a strong local film industry.