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Director Raed Andoni places a newspaper advertisement in Ramallah. He is looking for former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem. In his ad he asks that the men should also have experience as craftsmen, architects or actors. After a casting process that almost feels like role play, he arranges for a replica of the centres interrogation rooms and cells to be built to scale inside a hall - under close supervision from the former inmates and based on their memories. In this realistic setting the men subsequently re-enact their interrogations, discuss details about the prison, and express the humiliation they experienced during their detention. Using techniques that are reminiscent of the so-called theatre of the oppressed they work together to dramatise their real-life experiences. Their reconstruction brings long repressed emotions and undealt with trauma to the fore. Working on the film takes its toll on the men - both physically and mentally. The director also appears in front of the camera; not only is he creating a stage for his protagonists, he is also coming to terms with his own fragmented memories of imprisonment in Moskobiya thirty years previously.
Ramzi Maqdisi
Mohammed Khaleb
Mohammed Khattab
Abu Atta
Wafa Mari
The interior designer
Atef Al-Akhras
The set dresser
Bashar Hassuneh
The props master
Wadee Hanani
The assistant director
Raed Andoni
The authoritarian director
Adnan Al-Hatab
The 'father' and set builder
Abdallah Moubarak
The blacksmith
Anbar Ghannan
The groom
Raed Khattab
The cheerful prisoner
Mohammed Nimer
Set Builder
Mahmoud Abu Srour
Set Builder
Monther Jawabreh
The visual artist
Firas Nasr-Allah
Set Builder
Walaa Eltiti
Yazeed Faruja
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