Hamoody is a teenager plays the violin, but he lives in a garbage dumpster with a dream that someday he will play in a concert; so, his little sister seeks to make his dream come true, with some help from the “neighborhood” kids.
Close Your Eyes... Well
Close Your Eyes... Well
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Ali Al Bayati
- Script: Ali Al Bayati
- Cinematography: Hussein Cooley
- Editing: Yasser Saad
- Music: D.adrid Fadel
- Actors: Shirvan Mohammed, Fatima Ali, Mohammad Raad
- Producers: Hisham Indian
- Format: DCP
- Production Country: Iraq
- Production Year: 2016
- Duration: 12΄
- Contact: Film Way, filmwaydist@gmail.com
- Awards/Distinctions: (selection) Best Film – Μeet FF Italy 2016 Grand Prize of the Jury, Grand Prize of the Public – Festival du Courts-Metrages France 2016 Special Mention, Best Screenplay – Woodengate IFF Romania 2017
Ali Al Bayati
Ali al-Bayati was born in 1979. He holds a BA in Film Directing at the University of Baghdad. He works as an editor since 2004, as a DoP since 2010, and as a director since 2012. Close Υour Eyes... Well is his first short film.
