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Born a Celebrity
2024
|Short, Fiction
|13'
by Luay Awwad
[Palestine]
Synopsis
Feeling confined in his small Palestinian town and close-knit community, Kamel, a young man, embarks on a journey to discover his privacy and his personal freedom.
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Biography
Luay Awwad is a Palestinian director who holds a BFA in filmmaking from Dar Al Kalima University.
He has written and directed several short films, including the award-winning fiction film ‘SIRI MIRI’, which earned the Best Short Film Award at both the Palestine Cinema Days Festival and the Festival Ciné-Palestine in Paris.
Additionally, he has worked on several award-winning films, such as ‘IN VITRO’ (2019) by Larissa Sansour and the Oscar nominated short film The Present (2020) by Farah Nabulsi.
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