The Space Between Us
Director: Antoine Gaspard
Year: 2025
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 18 minutes
Synopsis: Salma, a 45-year-old writer, and Marwan, a young man in his twenties, meet in his stargazing garden. They connect through star talk, playful conversations, and intimate moments. They spend the night together. The next day, Marwan wakes to find her gone, with a paper from her post-bound notebook on the floor, indicating a place described in strange words. He goes to the forest and finds her, mesmerized by her unreal aura. He follows her to the lake. The same day, they enter an old house where Salma says she is inspired to live and write. Marwan helps her clean the house, and they spend a second night together. As Marwan sleeps, Salma writes about him and how they met, the passage is very enigmatic. The same night, she wakes up to find Marwan is gone. The two lovers meet again in the forest and enter the lake together again. Marwan reveals he has read her notebook. Is Salma a creature from another world or just a writer of fantasy novels?
