FAREWELL
Genre
Drama and Suspense
Running time
24 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Syria
Director
Ibrahem Melhem
Bio
Producer
Ibrahem Melhem, Nanet Khoury
Cast
Nancy Khoury, Mohammad Zarzour, Khaled Shbat
Scriptwriter
Ibrahem Melhem
Salma has vowed to take her dead brother’s body back to their family home in another country, a perilous journey that requires several illegal border crossings and the dubious help of a people smuggler. It is a physically arduous journey across country, fraught with security risks and made worse by the fact that the smuggler abandons her in the middle of the road, but she reaches a crisis point when she comes across a young man who has been shot. Salma has to make a fateful decision: does she go on with carrying out her promise to herself to deliver her dead brother’s body to its final resting place, or does she try to save a living stranger?
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