MAWSAM
MANITY
Hussen Ibraheem / France, Lebanon, Qatar / 2023 / 15 min / Colour
Italian premiere
During a sunny day in the Lebanese mountains, eleven-year-old Firas joins his father Tayseer and family friend Rayan on a bird hunting trip. Tayseer, eager to make his son stronger, entrusts him with a knife to kill a bird wounded earlier. However, in the meantime Firas has reflected on issues that go beyond family and social pressures, maturing and making a decision that will question traditional conventions. Courageously, the boy will firmly refuse his father's request, challenging the gender expectations he imposes and defending his personal beliefs. Mawsam is that masculinity that can be confirmed by practices socially considered "virile" such as hunting, but which Firas instead measures by means of inner strength, the strength to follow one's conscience.
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Hussen Ibraheem
He is a Lebanese director, born in Beirut in 1985, and holds a degree in architecture and an MFA in cinema from the Red Sea Institute for Cinematic Arts, in Jordan. He lives between Beirut and Berlin. He has directed short films including Sweet Discomfort of Missed Connections (2018) and Manity (2023), selected for the Doha Film Institute's Qumra. He is working on his first feature film, Tide.
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Screenplay Hussen IbraheemCinematography Julien SaezSound Sousen TatahEditing Kamal el MallakhMusic Sharif SehnouiMain cast Jade Breidi, Charbel Kamel, Hadi JibbouiProduction company Les Films de l'Altaï
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