Eating the Silence
Directed by Joël Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi
Rolf, a hemiplegic, spends his days dozing on a sofa bed in his dusty apartment. On TV, he learns of a deadly pandemic sweeping around the globe. While the world around him falls apart, he bears witness to it on his screen with relish.
About Eating the Silence
Eating the Silence is a 24-minute short film from Switzerland directed by Joël Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi. It screened at the 2022 San Jose International Short Film Festival in the “World Cinema One” program.
- Director
- Joël Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi
- Program
- World Cinema One
- Country
- Switzerland
- Run time
- 24 mins
- Genre
- World Cinema
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- Trailer
