Chris

Feature film, drama, 90 min. Mayssan Haddad Suheil Haddad

This is the story of Chris; a 19 year old Christian Arab from Jaffa who is conflicted between his strong

sense of Palestinian identity and the pragmatic need for him to mature in a nationalist state struggling

for its existence.

SYNOPSIS

Chris is a 19 years old Christian Arab from Jaffa who is still living with his mother, unable to find his own place in the world after graduating from a Jewish high school.

Chris feels trapped! On the one hand he identifies with the Palestinian people and Arabic society, and on the other his friends, most of whom are Jews, are trying to convince him to enlist to the IDF (“Israeli Defense Force”), claiming that military service might help him secure his future as well as turn him into a man.

Chris constantly fights with his mother, while his father is an old school patriarch who is monitoring Chris’s every move. After his grandmother dies, Chris’s starts sliding down hill. Fast. The anger within him increases to catastrophic levels, and he feels that the world is closing in on him. Chris cannot contain all that rage and frustration and he is bound to explode in a strong wave of unimaginable violence.

TRIGGER

Chris’s story enables me to explore what an Arab youth who grows as Israelis feels. I am an Arab living in

Jaffa. What is my destiny, and destiny of my fellow Arabs living in Jaffa? The questions inspires me to

write about Chris.

FILMMAKERS

Mayssan Haddad / Writer/Director, recently graduated Sapir College, where he directed

numerous short films both narrative and documentary, Mayssan now intends his MFA

studies in Cinema at the Tel Aviv University.

Suheil Haddad / Producer, a producer and content editor in Education TV, a theatre and Cinema actor, winner of Best Leading

Actor Valencia Festival Spain 1998. Suheil

produced WE’VE BEEN THERE, dealing with the Holocaust; DUMA (2011), nominated for Best Documentary at the Israel Documentary Forum Competition.

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