Archive of films Ok, Enough, Goodbye / Tayeb, khalas, yalla

Lebanon / United Arab Emirates
2010, 95 min

Section: Forum of Independents - Competition
Year: 2011

The protagonist of this documentary-style tragicomedy is the 40-something owner of a small sweet shop in the suburbs of Tripoli, who finds it hard to become independent from his elderly mother. When his mom unexpectedly leaves one day, he discovers that living alone is not nearly as interesting as he had imagined. What can he do to bring new meaning into his life?

Synopsis

The Lebanese city of Tripoli may be an attractive tourist destination but if you live in one of its suburban prefab complexes it’s nothing to get excited about. Especially if you share a small ground-floor flat with your meticulous elderly mother. The protagonist, a 40-something man who runs a small sweet shop, has had just about enough of endless conversations, card parties, and boring get-togethers with his mother’s friends. But when his mother leaves for Beirut one day without even telling him, he feels overwhelmed and deceived. He suddenly finds that he’s not ready to live alone, realizing that his newfound independence is far from what he had imagined. The only source of amusement to break up his monotonous existence is a neighborhood urchin.... In its own small way, this documentary-style tragicomedy by a duo of debuting filmmakers touches on the global topic of broken family ties and the loneliness suffered in our outwardly "user-friendly” modern society.

About the director

Rania Attieh (b. 1978, Tripoli, Lebanon) graduated in screenwriting and direction from City College of New York. Her graduation work received a school award for best dramatic film. Daniel Garcia (b. 1979) hails from South Texas and graduated from New York University. In 2007 he gained attention with his school film Nothing Nowhere, which he shot in Morocco. Attieh and Garcia have written and directed several shorts which have screened at such festivals as Avignon, Woodstock, and Munich. Their most successful shorts are From the Parapet (2005), Almost Brooklyn (2008), made under the supervision of acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, and Tripoli, Quiet (2009 – awarded at Abu Dhabi). The directors live in New York. OK, Enough, Goodbye is their feature debut.

Contacts

En Passant
33 Saint Nicholas Ave, 11237, New York, Brooklyn
United States of America
Tel: +1 917 582 055 6
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Color, HD CAM
International premiere

Section:	Forum of Independents - Competition

Director:	Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
Screenplay:	Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
Dir. of Photography:	Daniel Garcia
Music:	Daniel Garcia
Editor:	Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
Producer:	Rania Attieh
Production:	En Passant
Cast:	Daniel Arzrouni, Nadimé Attieh, Sablawork Tesfay
Contact:	En Passant

www:	www.okenoughgoodbye.com

Guests

Rania Attieh

Film Director

Daniel Garcia

Film Director