No Exit

No Exit (2014)

10 Dec 2014 • Short, Drama, Fantasy • 0h 11m
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Two generation, two wars, and two lost souls in a tunnel, waiting at a station for a bus that will never pass, the story reflects the reality of wasted life waiting to change its destiny, thinking life will change by running away, and as far as they go, life still holding the main essence of war, a life that exist in the time between two shells, two bullets...two wars... In 1967, MAN, dug his way out through a tunnel he found and run away looking for a better future hoping to find it in somewhere else... 2009, During the assault on Gaza, ALI, decided also to run away through a tunnel he found, he didn't know where does it lead to, but he wanted to reach London, where his cousin Mohamed lives in, hoping to start a new life that will make him forget the past. After a weird surreal journey, Ali arrives to a bus station in a tunnel, where JAMAL is waiting for the bus since 67 War, their conversation is more existential and metaphorical than passenger asking for direction type... The story makes me face my own history, traveling since I was 10, after the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait, following my family that was standing in front of many options, and the question of better life has been in there since... people in war have no time to think, just to run away, which is legitimate, but after a while, reflection has to be made, and this piece is my reflection on this endless search of a better life... Meeting some friends who managed to escape other wars, and settled somewhere else, admit that its still the same, they didn't find the better life, they didn't reach to a point of satisfaction, war and the hard days lives inside them, leaving a scar in memory, that prevent them from moving forward, a trauma (a curse) that will follow them and me for the rest of our lives, where life passes by while waiting for something we don't know. The whole film is shot in a bus station located in the underground, where no one is waiting there except for MAN, the whole thing look surreal, and the conversation between the Jamal and Ali doesn't make any sense, but in this non-sense situation lays the whole meaning of the story, the nonsense of the war, reflecting its effect on normal humans leaving them broking and distracted for the rest of their life.

Mohanad Yaqubi
Director
Omar El-Khairy, Mohanad Yaqubi
Writer
Salim Dau, Adham Nu'man
Starring

Language: Arabic
Awards: 1 nomination.
Country: Palestine
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