Ghost Hunting

Ghost Hunting

🎞️ Movie 94 min QA
โ˜… 7.0 /10 2017

Director Raed Andoni places a newspaper advertisement in Ramallah. He is looking for former inmates of the Moskobiya interrogation centre in Jerusalem. In his ad he asks that the men should also have experience as craftsmen, architects or actors. After a casting process that almost feels like role play, he arranges for a replica of the centre's interrogation rooms and cells to be built to scale inside a hall - under close supervision from the former inmates and based on their memories. In this realistic setting the men subsequently re-enact their interrogations, discuss details about the prison, and express the humiliation they experienced during their detention. Using techniques that are reminiscent of the so-called 'theatre of the oppressed' they work together to dramatise their real-life experiences. Their reconstruction brings long repressed emotions and undealt with trauma to the fore. Working on the film takes its toll on the men - both physically and mentally. The director also appears in front of the camera; not only is he creating a stage for his protagonists, he is also coming to terms with his own fragmented memories of imprisonment in Moskobiya thirty years previously.

Cast

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Ramzi Maqdisi
Mohammed Khaleb
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Ramzi Maqdisi
Self
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Mohammed Khattab
Abu Atta
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Mohammed Khattab
Self
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Wafa Mari
The interior designer
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Wafa Mari
Self
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Atef Al-Akhras
The set dresser
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Atef Al-Akhras
Self
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Bashar Hassuneh
The props master
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Bashar Hassuneh
Self
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Wadee Hanani
The assistant director
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Wadee Hanani
Self
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Raed Andoni
The authoritarian director
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Raed Andoni
Self
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Adnan Al-Hatab
The 'father' and set builder
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Adnan Al-Hatab
Self
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Abdallah Moubarak
The blacksmith
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Abdallah Moubarak
Investigator #1
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Abdallah Moubarak
Self
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Anbar Ghannan
The groom
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Anbar Ghannan
Investigator #2
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Anbar Ghannan
Self
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Camille Cottagnoud
Cinematographer