SCREWDRIVER
- Feature
- 2018
- 108 Minutes
- Palestinian Territory, Occupied, United States, Qatar
- Language: Arabic and Hebrew (modern)
After 15 years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. Unable to distinguish reality from hallucination he unravels and drives himself back to where it all began.
Director: Bassam Jarbawi
Screenwriter: Bassam Jarbawi
Production Company: Dialectic, Rimsh Film
Premier Status: National premiere
Film Critic
Dramatic incident
Azizollah Haji Mashhadi
“Screwdriver” (Mafak) first feature by writer-director Bassam Jarbawi tries to portrait Ziad Bakri’s physical, mental and emotional suffering as a Palestinian man who returns home after having spent 15 years in an Israeli prison. Face with a total social change that looks very different from the past, Ziad has no choice but to return to such a society. In fact, it is very difficult for him to accurately distinguish the boundaries between “reality” and “illusion”. Zaid, as a “hero” who has spent his best years in the Israeli prison, expects other people to follow and obey him. By portraying the central character of Ziad, which now has backed home after years of imprisonment, with severe headaches, insomnia and depression, Jarbawi tries to close viewers with him in a simple manner.
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Awards
2018: International Bosphorus Film Festival, International Competition, Best Film, Turkey2018: Montpellier Film Festival, Competition, Young Audience Award, France
Cast and Crew
Screenwriter: Bassam Jarbawi
DOP / Camera: David Mcfarland
Editor: Bassam Jarbawi, Christopher Radcliff
Music: Jon Natchez
Sound: Ryan Billia, Raja Dubayah
Production Designer: Bashar Hassuneh
Producer: Shrihari Sathe, Yasmine Qaddumi, Bassam Jarbawi
Cast: Ziad Bakri, Yasmine Qaddumi, Jameel Khoury, Amir Khoury, Areen Omari, Mariam Basha
Director
Bassam Jarbawi
Bassam Jarbawi was born in Palestine and studied film at Columbia University in New York. He has worked as a production manager, editor, and writer. His previous credits include the short film Chicken Heads (09). Screwdriver (18) is his latest film.