(Shorts 3)
Majdi El-Omari
Palestine
16’ | 2023
Arabic with English subtitles
Haunted by her mother’s death and recurring attacks on her city, a young girl becomes obsessed with death. As her father tries to distract her through the making of a stop-motion film, reality invades their world. When his efforts to shelter his daughter fail, fantasy and imagination cross paths to help her, and in that fraction of time, story frees and a touch of mar mama's magic saves.
Screenwriter: Majdi El-Omari
Cast: Ziad Bakri, Lana Abu Srour
Director of Photography: Ashraf Diwani
Music: Suad Bushnaq
Editor: Majdi El-Omari
Online Editor: Sylvain Cossette
Colorist: Saed Andoni
Sound Mixer: Bruno Bélanger
Sound Recordist: Ibrahim Zaher
Sound Design: Nada El-Omari
Art Director: Salah Abu Naema
Producer: Majdi El-Omari
Executive Producer: Akram Al-Waara
Majdi El Omari is a Palestinian/Canadian filmmaker. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in filmmaking from the Cairo Institute of Cinema in Egypt and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. After working in the Middle East as an assistant director and production manager on various feature and documentary films, El Omari became a filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, and editor. El Omari’s short films d’auteur have been selected in several international festivals. They tell stories that grow out of the existential situation of individuals living in a world that excludes them. Standstill was his debut feature film. El Omari lives between Haifa and Montreal. He is currently writing his next feature film, The Woman of the Bees, while teaching fiction filmmaking at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.