The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)
The Jacket
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The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)
Laurel FFG
Language
Taal
Langue
Arabic
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Duration
Duur
Durée
71'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78

The Jacket is a portrait of Jamal Hindawi, a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila Refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Together with his friends, he makes political theatre about their profound connection to their homeland, Palestine, and their situation as refugees in their country of residence, Lebanon. When Jamal embarks on a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

“Shatila was a site of a horrific massacre during the Lebanese Civil War in the early 1980s. “I think when you are making a film like this, I think it is very important to be aware of the past and certain triggers…in a certain way, it could be very easy to talk about the massacres in a film, but Shatila is always approached from this angle – [and] is much more than this event,” the director Poppe reflects. “There were many films that were made about this massacre before. For this film and the one we made before, there is a certain wish from side to look at the future and not open the wounds always from the past.””

Geoffrey Macnab

“Within this figurative and literal wasteland; Jamal’s quest takes place. Jamal’s tale of displacement is not an isolated story; ideally, his story opens up the understanding of the stories of the people he meets on his journey. Together they form a landscape that shows the uprootedness of a region, a belonging that is being disrupted.”

Mathijs Poppe

Festival Selections
Festival selecties
Sélections festivals
→ Film Fest Ghent, Belgium (2024)
Language
Taal
Langue
Arabic
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Duration
Duur
Durée
71'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
With
Met
Avec
Jamal Hindawi, Farah Hindawi, Hanan Hindawi, Mona Hindawi, Mohamad al Saghier
Script
Scenario
Scénario
Mathijs Poppe
Image
Beeld
Image
Quinten Wyns
Sound
Geluid
Son
Calixte De Coster, Kwinten Van Laethem
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Elisa Heene
Line Producer
Uitvoerend Producent
Producteur Exécutif
Annabel Kemel
Editing
Montage
Montage
Lawrence Paul Foley, Mathijs Poppe
Music
Muziek
Musique
Bana Haffar
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Emmanuel Zouki
Sound Mix
Klankmix
Mixage son
Max van den Oever
Colour Correction
Kleurcorrectie
Etalonnage
Rachel Stone
Production
Productie
Production
Mirage
Co-production
Coproductie
Coproduction
Fulgurance, Family Affair Films, Placeless Films, Lyon Capitale TV, Al Jazeera Documentary
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Tax Shelter measure via Flanders Tax Shelter, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), Angoa - Procirep Societé des Producteurs, Netherlands Film Fund