Credits
Director Simon Matthew Valentine & Shokat Harjo
Writer Simon Matthew Valentine & Shokat Harjo
Producer Valia Phyllis Zwart
Project Type Short
Runtime 12 minutes
Country of Origin Norway
Synopsis
After escaping ISIS soldiers attacking his village, being shot and crawling between mines, Asal realizes that the girl who helped him was only in his head – and he moves on alone”
Based on the true story of the actor Shokat Harjo.
Director Biography
Shokat Harjo
Founder of Honning Film, where he is both an actor, director and screenwriter. He fled to Norway from Syria in December 2015, and made his debut at Det Norske Teatret in the screening “I desse dagar” in 2022 and in the feature film Gritt in 2021. He is also current with the films “Siste Stopp” and “I Walked Alone” and the Netflix series Lakseøya.
Simon Mathew Valentine
Simon is a British/Norwegian filmmaker who tells stories through the use of magical realism, often with elements of the supernatural and metaphysical. His previous eco-horror short “Tistlebu” has won multiple prestigious international awards, and he is currently taking his fine arts master’s degree at the Norwegian Film School.
