• Omé

    Directed by Wassim Geagea
    Lebanon/Qatar | 17 minutes |

Following the death of his mother, 9-year-old Elias goes to extreme lengths to naively bring her back from Jesus' heaven all while defying his faith…

In competition for Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes

film synopsis

film details

Director: Wassim Geagea
Producers: Gaby Zarazir, Gabriel Chamoun
Screenwriter: Wassim Geagea, Tony Eli Kanaan
Cinematographers: Nassim Geagea
Editor: Sebastien Leclercq
Cast: Jack Abboud El Janah, Mohammad, Assaf, Houssam Sabbah, Joseph Zeitouni
Original Language Title: أمي
Country: Lebanon/Qatar
Language: In Arabic with English subtitles.
Year: 2019
Running Time: 17 minutes
Awards: Best Fiction Short, Tampere Film Festival; Silver Star for Best Short Film, El Gouna Film Festival
Primary Company: Madame Le Tapis
Contact Email: gzarazir@madameletapis.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/OMESHORTFILM/

director biography

Wassim Geagea, a young Lebanese filmmaker, who studied Cinema at the Lebanese University- Faculty of Fine Arts and then continued his masters degree in cinema at St Joseph university in Beirut. He undergoes training sessions on scriptwriting between the french institute in Beirut and moulin d’Ande in Normandy - France He showed his first short movie “My Grandfather’s Photo" in several film festivals and won the first prize in European films festival - Lebanon 2012 Geagea worked and directed various documentaries and Tv ads in a lot of countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt, and Jordan. From 2011 till now. “ Omé” is his second short movie that talks about his personal experience with death.. Geagea works now on his first feature film “BARKA”.

2020 ShortFest Archive