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The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe
Belgium, Netherlands, France, Lebanon
2024
71 min
International Premiere
Luminous
Festival history

Ten years ago, the young Belgian filmmaker Matthijs Poppe, then still a film student, visited the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila in the south of Beirut for the first time. There he met Jamal Hindawi and his family, with whom he made his graduation project Ours Is a Country of Words (2017). Now Jamal is the central figure in The Jacket, Poppe’s first feature-length film.

Jamal, whose parents fled to Lebanon during the Nakba, is working with a number of friends on a political theater play. It’s a piece about their connection with Palestine and their position as refugees in the country in which they were born. This is symbolized by a prop made by Jamal.

With the loss of this prop begins a quest that gives the film a beautiful cinematic structure, reminiscent of the work of Abbas Kiarostami. Jamal’s conversations with the people he meets during his search, as gentle as they are instructive, compellingly reveal the rifts in Beirut’s socioeconomic life, and the pain caused by historical dislocation.

Credits
Director
    Mathijs Poppe
    Mathijs Poppe
Production
    Elisa Heene for Mirage
    Elisa Heene for Mirage
Cinematography
    Quinten Wyns
    Quinten Wyns
Editing
    Lawrence Paul Foley,
    Mathijs Poppe
    Lawrence Paul Foley,
    Mathijs Poppe
Sound Design
    Emmanuel Zouki
    Emmanuel Zouki
Music
    Bana Haffar
    Bana Haffar
World Sales
    Pluto Film
    Pluto Film
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Amstelfilm
    Amstelfilm
Screening copy
    Pluto Film
    Pluto Film

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