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Screwdriver

Mafak

BASSAM JARBAWI
Palestine, USA, Qatar, 2018
108 minutes, Color

In Person: Producer Shrihari Sathe

After more than a decade in an Israeli jail, newly released Ziad doesn't recognize the world around him. He is a free man but his friends have moved on, technology has changed, and dating seems impossible. Although he's hailed as a hero for his involvement in a failed attack on a settler, the act that led to his imprisonment, the young Palestinian man has doubts about whether his actions had any real meaning. Now living back at home in Ramallah, Ziad's attempts to adjust to life on the outside prove to be frustratingly slow: he has no education, no trade, and he's weighed down by an incredible sadness as he tries to live what feels like an already lost life. —Toronto International Film Festival

In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles