Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Laila Abbas | 15 minutes

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The Chair

by Laila Abbas, 2017, 15 min Palestine

A love story following the Palestinian Matchmaking Methods... Olga, a Jamaican born Palestinian , her grandmother dies during her visit to Palestine , so she finds herself surrounded by many women and many traditions she is not familiar with but has to respect. many men try to approach Olga especially when they learn she is form Jamaica, chasing after her passport. Along with that a distant relative try to match her with grooms from their home town encouraged by Olga’s aunt, an attempt to make Olga decide to live in Betlehem, when Olga discover that she decide to back fire, leading to an interesting and ironic incident with her aunt.