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DAMAGE
DAMAGE
MADELEINE BLACKWELL
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DAMAGE
DAMAGE
MADELEINE BLACKWELL
Country
AUSTRALIA
language
ENGLISH | ARABIC
2023 year
84 Minutes

SCHEDULE

01.03.2024 / 12:20 PM/ Audi 11 PVR INOX ORION MALL
04.03.2024 / 10:20 AM/ Audi 4 PVR INOX ORION MALL

Synopsis

Ali is not a citizen. He drives a taxi using another man’s license and relies on the GPS to negotiate his way around a city he doesn’t know. His passenger, Esther is an old woman who can’t remember where she is going. She is angry because she has been stripped of everything familiar to her and she doesn't recognise the world anymore. They travel through the night in search of a vague destination while surveillance cameras mark their journey, coldly redacting the human element, defining who belongs and who does not, who is safe and who is not. What they are left with is their damage – she can’t remember and he can't forget.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Madeleine Blackwell
Screenplay: Madeleine Blackwell
Director of Photography: Paul J Warren, Rebecca Duncker, Hugh Freytag
Editor: Raphael Rivera
Music: Peter Knight, Mohammad Ameen Marrdan, Kate Reid, Jem Savage
Sound: Mark Blackwell
Cast: Ali Al Jenabi, Imelda Bourke

Awards - Winner: N/A
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: San Francisco International Film Awards (Official Selection), UK FF (Official Selection)

Director's Biography
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MADELEINE BLACKWELL

Madeleine Blackwell works across a range of theatre and screen projects as a writer and director. Her first short FATHER screened at the Tehran International Film Festival and The Women on Women Film Festival, in Sydney. She was nominated for an AFI screenwriting award for SO CLOSE TO HOME, which won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and a Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival. Her 2014 short film ELSEWHERE screened at the Canberra Short Film Festival, Le Bout du Monde Festival, France, and Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, Iran.