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The chair

The chair

Dirigida per Laila Abbas

2017

Palestine

15 min-VOSC.

Synopsis

A love story following the tradition of Palestinian matchmaking…

Olga, a Jamaican woman of Palestinian origin, visits Palestine to attend the funeral of her grandmother. She suddenly finds herself surrounded by a lot of women and a lot of strange traditions with which she has to deal.

About the director

Laila Abbas

An independent producer, writer and filmmaker, Laila Abbas began her career working for television. She studied audiovisual production in England, where she began to make her first short films. She is currently a film teacher and is working on her first feature film.

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