Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting
Panorama 2017
FRA/PSE/CHE/QAT 2017
by: Raed Andoni
Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting
Panorama 2017
FRA/PSE/CHE/QAT 2017
by: Raed Andoni
Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting
Panorama 2017
FRA/PSE/CHE/QAT 2017
by: Raed Andoni
Raed Andoni
Feb 12, 2017Raed Andoni
The film's director
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting
Feb 18, 2017Raed Andoni
The director framed by his team and the jury.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Raed Andoni
The director with his award.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Palmyre Badinier, Wadee Hanani, Raed Andoni
The producer, the protagonist and the director during the award ceremony.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Palmyre Badinier, Wadee Hanani, Raed Andoni
The protagonist and the director during the award ceremony.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Raed Andoni
The director during the Press Conference.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Raed Andoni, Wadee Hanani, Palmyre Badinier
The director, the protagonist and the producer hugging the jury.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
Feb 18, 2017Wadee Hanani, Raed Andoni
The protagonist and the director.
Panorama – Istiyad Ashbah | Ghost Hunting – Glashütte Original Documentary Award
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 centre’s 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.
by
Raed Andoni
France / Palestine / Switzerland / Qatar 2017
Arabic, English
Documentary form94’ · Colour
Ramzi Maqdisi (Abu Atta)Mohammed "Abu Atta" Khattab (himself)Raed Andoni (the director)Atef Al-Akhras (the set dresser)Wadee Hanani (the assistant director)Adnan Al-Hatab (the "father" and set builder)Abdallah Moubarak (the blacksmith)Anbar Ghannan (the groom and poet)Raed Khattab (the cheerful prisoner)Monther Jawabreh (the visual artist)
Born in Amman, Jordan in 1967, he is a Palestinian director and producer who began his career in the film industry in 1997 as an independent producer. He is co-founder of Dar Films production company in Ramallah and Les Films de Zayna in Paris. His debut feature-length documentary Fix Me screened at both the Sundance Film Festival and at Cannes.
Filmography (documentaries)2008 Improvisation 2009 Fix Me 2017 Istiyad Ashbah (Ghost Hunting)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
Les Films de Zayna
UDI