The Borrowed Dress

Name: The Borrowed Dress
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017
Duration: 54 min

Director: Leen Alfaisal

Rights:

Highlights

World premiered at the London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema.
Screened at the cultural space Warehouse421.
Won two awards, including Best Documentary award at the Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF), and screened at a number of international festivals, including Malmö Arab Film Festival.
Landed its Arab world premiere at the Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival.

2017/ UAE - Jordan - Lebanon - Syria54 min/ Documentary

Original Title

Toub Al E’yra

SYNOPSIS

Grandmother Susu (80 years old), her daughter Doaa (50 years old), and her grandchild Saad (16 years old) are forced to flee Syria after the beginning of the revolution to live in different scattered places, with the one thing left to share being their desire to reunite. The details of their personal stories and human experiences are microcosms of two stories: one of a population that has spread all over the world, and the other of a homeland that might have changed forever.

CAST

Siham Abu Nabbout
Doaa Al Zoabi
Saad Alkuwatly

CREW

Screenwriter: Leen Alfaisal
DOP: Leen Alfaisal
Editor: Leen Alfaisal