Caorle Film Festival / The Promise

The Promise

A man’ becoming after the loss of his father.

After the death of his father a young Palestinian man is lost. He’s caught in a mental vortex, unable to find his identity, unable to escape the promise he made to his father on his death bed.

And while the words escaped his own lips, he is unaware of what they mean or how he will even fulfill them.
He is alone in their gravity, never able to articulate them to anyone else, only knowing that they are his driver on a road that is unknown.

The young man submits himself to climb Everest. Why? He’s unable to share it with anyone. He simply follows a voice in his head leading him upwards not knowing what he will find and where it will lead him.

The promise is the story of coming into one’s self, the story of how a man discovers who he wants to be, beyond the shadow of the paternal legacy, and in the end, realizing that what he becomes was the legacy all along.

After all, we can always achieve our dreams, as long as we keep believing we can.

Info
Director

Leonardo Antonio Avezzano

Country

Jordan

Year

2022

Genre

Documentary

Writer

Leonardo Antonio Avezzano, Arwa Damon, Margaux Tjoeng

Cast

Alaa Hashim Aljuneidi, Mostafa Salameh, Leonardo Antonio Avezzano

Duration

1h 24m

Category:

Official Selection 2023