THE JACKET

THE JACKET

Mathijs Poppe | 2024 | 71 min | The Netherlands | Arabic

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 theater 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 find an important lost theater prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

Director Mathijs Poppe D.O.P. Quinten Wyns Editor Lawrence Paul Foley, Mathijs Poppe Composer Bana Haffar Sound design Emmanuel Zouki Sound mix Max van den Oever Grading Rachel Stone Producer Elisa Heene, Mirage Coproducer Noortje Wilschut

Distributor Avila Financiers 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

Festivals IDFA 2024, Film Fest Gent