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In order to visually represent my undefined cultural identity, I wanted to build a temporally undefined world, and to represent the Golan poetically, to do that I emphasized audio-visual details that are leftovers of various periods in the history of the Golan, leftovers of wars, colonialism, tyranny, revolutions, each event left its cultural imprint and scar on the natives and the landscape until today. cinematically, the film was influenced by the work of Yasujirō Ozu, Andrei Tarkovsky, Abbas Kiarostami and Syrian TV Shows and films which I grew up on.
Country: Israel
T-Port Partner: The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University
Mlk Al Halabi was born in 2001 in a small Druze Arab village in the Golan Heights, with an Undefined Nationality, Currently he is in his third year in The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television in Tel Aviv University, he is focused on directing, screenwriting and editing, the short film "A State of Absence" is his first short film made in the end of the second year in university.
In order to avoid going back to prison, Hasan must kick out his wife's brother...
