I Don’t Know
“I Don’t Know” is our new short film which was released in 2019 theatrically, it has been shot in April 2019 and directed by Firas Sameer. The film is talking about the childhood-raising environment which affects the human being when he is raised either positively or negatively along with other deep details represented in a surreal film style. More to know from the director’s statement below. Festivals & Awards I Don’t Know Official Poster I Don’t Know Official Trailer I Don’t Know short film details: Tagline: When you don’t know that you don’t know. Film Genre: Drama, Horror Release Date: 2019 Starring: Regan Tetlow, Denis Pereverzev and Ethan Tannous. Script: Moh Sattam Hasan DOP: Krishnan Vs Makeup: Gita Photographer: Omar Ghazwan Sound: Abdul Aziz Location Manager: Yousef Abu Laban Editing & VFX: Firas Sameer Directed by: Firas Sameer I Don’t Know – Behind the Scenes Director’s Statement Story and the theme The story of the (I Don’t Know) short film is all about that poor labor who lived all his life in poverty and misery, rebelling and willing to revenge his own past to decide his unknown destiny out of his antagonist – the factory manager of where he is working at. During the film, we will see how the protagonist (the labor) is accessing an area which he never dreamed to enter that is the factory manager’s office, and during his way, he discovers several facts about life and death, destinies, poor and rich… etc. via symbols. The genre of the film is combined between Drama, Action, Mystery, and Sci-fi through a running time period of 11 minutes, it’s all about an adventure type of a revenge mission to be accomplished. The idea behind the film is to showcase in a surreal kind of way a life perspective from the eye of a person in poverty to the world following the facts of humankind in the history of how we are all driven-by (controlled) and not by choosing our own choices in life. Director’s vision As a director, I believe it is really crucial and critical at the same time to build a unique way of how a story to be told and seen especially after my several meetings and discussions with the script-writer and the add-ons that I have added, it is important because the subject of the story is extracted from our life throughout our history as humans starting from the big-bang explosion to our date, human history is filled with miserable stories of poor people, their daily lives, their suffering and sadness, I don’t want to be so pessimistic but this is part of our lives as humans. I presented the film by playing with places and times (as past and present), in addition by adding a split to the locations into two sides, one for poverty world and the other for the rich and wealthy, the colors I chose should deliver the impressions relatively for each, several symbols were used in the film to deliver deep discussable messages to the audience which should open several discussions to study the meanings of those symbols. The music I used in the film deliver certain feelings to the audience and help them not only to (see) the film from a perspective of the poor labor, but also to (feel) his perspectives. I wanted to showcase and represent a person in poverty with all the feelings and sadness in his face along with all of his uncertainty, lack of knowledge and self-confidence , I presented that by shooting several of the film’s shots as an extreme close to the actor’s face to show his deep hesitation whether daring to enter to the factory’s manager office or not; camera movements to the backward delivers his loneliness feelings to the audience, the elusion he had in a climax moment was designed to show the decisive moment of his destiny in the story. Furthermore, adding a simple black and white effects to certain moments shows his connection to a different time. However, from the rich man’s perspective, you could see how extremely he is different versus the poverty-stricken labor from all aspects, changing the direction of the Statue of Liberty figure with blood add hidden meanings of freedom vs servitude. I tried as a director to raise awareness of how we as humans sometimes don’t sympathize with other people, we don’t appreciate what we have, and to enlighten ourselves and others to be motivated to help other people in need of help no matter what type or amount of help that we could offer. Director/ Firas Sameer
UNCLE NAJI IN UAE العم ناجي في الامارات
Uncle Naji in UAE, the new featured emirate movie soon in the UAE and Gulf cinemas were produced and directed by Ahmed Zain. The story is mainly about “Naji” the Yemeni young guy who lives and work in the UAE with his Yemeni partner decides with his Emirate friends to go on holiday to a mountainous region in Ras Al Khaima where they face many funny and strange comedy situations, but unexpected moment happened turned their funny journey to horror, fear and mystery. The movie starring Ibrahim Almeirasi, Ahmed Saif, Mohamed Alkendi, Alia Almannai, Tariq Almuhairi. The director has managed to have several social media stars to act into his movie Uncle Naji in UAE through the journey of the movie story. Watch the official trailer of the Uncle Naji in UAE movie Babylon Gate Films (Firas Sameer) has already participated into this movie project by supporting only: Sound Mastering and corrections. 5.1 Surround Sound production. Adding the English Subtitling to the whole movie and its trailer. DCP Digital Cinema Package Conversion to the cinemas for both the movie and its trailer. Hence the video and audio editing was solely done by the DOP Ali Bin Mattar. انتهى المخرج والمنتج الإماراتي أحمد زين من تصوير فيلمه الجديد «عم ناجي في الإمارات» والذي قريبا سيعرض قريبا في جميع دور السينما الاماراتية والخليجية، يمزج بين الرعب والكوميديا في آن واحد كأول تجربة إماراتية تجمع مشاهير مواقع التواصل في فيسبوك وانستغرام ويوتيوب في عمل سينمائي جماهيري واحد. ويعزز الفيلم الكثير من المفاهيم والقيم النبيلة خصوصا ان الفيلم قد اصدر في عام التسامح في الامارات، مثل الصداقة والوفاء والتعايش بألفة ومحبة مع الآخرين، عبر قصة كوميدية تتمحور حول شخصية «عم ناجي» اليمني وأصدقائه الإماراتيين، ومن المتوقع أن يحدث فيلم العم ناجي في الامارات نقلة نوعية في السينمائية الجماهيرية الإماراتية، خصوصا أنه يجمع بين نخبة من الممثلين المحترفين ورواد السوشيال ميديا الموهوبين. الفيلم من تأليف وسيناريو وحوار وإخراج أحمد زين، وإنتاج مشترك بين أحمد زين ومحمد زين الهاشمي، ويشارك في بطولته كل من إبراهيم المريسي، وأحمد سيف، ومحمد الكندي، ومحمد مرشد، ومروض الخيول طارق المهيري، والإعلامية علياء المناعي، وإيمان حسين، وأمل محمد. شاركت افلام بوابة بابل (فراس سمير) بانتاج هذا الفيلم من ناحية المشاركة بعمل: 1. ماسترنج وتصليحات الصوت. 2. تحويل الصوت الى صيغة 5.1 3. اضافة الترجمه الانكليزية للفيلم. 4. تحويل الفيلم النهائي الى صيغة دي سي بي DCP للسينما. يذكر ان مونتاج الفيلم الكامل للفيديو والصوت بواسطة مدير التصوير علي بن مطر.
WATCH – The Official Trailer of Game Of Thrones – Season 8
Days are moving fast now and we are up to watch the upcoming last season of the most waited TV series The Game Of Thrones in its final season 8, now HBO has produced the official trailer of this season which can be watched below. Will there be another trailer for the Game of Thrones Season 8? No confirmation at the moment, but surely we will share here any other trailers that are coming out. What can we observe from the official GOT 2019 trailer? The short official trailer gives us a preview about the final moments and it’s preparations just before the final battle between the living and the dead, Arya is featuring this trailer in two different moods, the first when she was injured and the blood were on her head and face while the other when she was looking fine holding a dragonglass dagger in her hand. Another interesting part of it is where Jon and Deanerys (khaleesi) visiting Dragon and Rhaegal and speculations seems to be the time for both Deanerys and Jon to ride the dragons to start the fight against the dead. The full trailer is below to watch. WATCH – The Official Trailer of Game Of Thrones – Season 8
