Cage
Director: Matthew Ibrahim
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 10 minutes
Synopsis: Farid is a young man living alone in his small apartment. As we go with him through his day, we can see the way he isolates himself as he battles his depression and loneliness. In the beginning of the film, Farid gets canned food from the market and postpones his bill. He goes home and stands in front of a window with papers colored in a marker, he takes a marker and adds to the drawings. The night falls, Farid lights up a few candles and sits on his couch, the room is unclean with leftover cans of tuna all around him. He eats in silence as he watches a candle placed where a TV should’ve been. The next day, two men come to Farid’s house, they leave with some of his furniture leaving him only his mirror. Farid looks at his reflection and decides to leave the house. He comes back home with a cage inside of it two little birds, he seems content with their presence. He feeds them as they joyfully play together but Farid turns sad, he touches the cage and decides to open it. When the birds get out Farid finally smiles.
