| 2023 STANK |
A film by Roy Arida
Fiction
37 minutes
Pre-production assistance from the CNC
Production assistance from the Bretagne region
With the support of Procirep-Angoa
Beirut, Lebanon.
Hassan assembles planks of wood. His wife has died. He builds her coffin. Tamara and Rami, his children in their twenties, help him as best they can to carry out his wife’s last wishes: to be buried in her native village, abandoned since the war that raged in the country over 20 years ago.
Broadcasts:
– Festival Côté Court 2023, Pantin, France
– Silhouette 2023 Festival, Paris, France
– Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023, USA
– Red Sea International Film Festival 2023, Saudi Arabia
– CINEMED 2023 Mediterranean Film Festival, Montpellier, France
– Sarlat Film Festival 2023, France
– Beijing International Short Film Festival 2023, China
– Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024, France
– Travelling 2024 Film Festival, Rennes, France
– Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS 2024, Latvia – Best Medium-Length Film Award
– Beirut International Women Film Festival, 2024, Lebanon – Best Lebanese Short Film Award
– La Citta dell’Utopia International Film Festival 2024, Rome, Italy
– Burgas International Film Festival 2024, Bulgaria
– Tallahassee Film Festival 2024, USA
– Idromeno International Film Festival 2024, Albania – Best Director Short Film
– Buffalo International Film Festival 2024, USA
– Kinshasa International Film Festival “FICKIN” 2024, Democratic Republic of Congo
– 24h Cinematografica 2024, Foggia, Italy – Best Photography and Best Short Film
– Florence International Film Festival 2024, Italy – Best Short Film
– Karama Human rights Film Festival 2024, Amman, Jordan
– FICMARC Caribbean Sea International Film Festival 2024, Venezuela – Best Short Film Award
– Short Movie Club Film Festival “NEFILTRAVANAE KINO” 2025, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus
– Collegno Film Fest 2025, Turin, Italy
Available on Canal+
