Screwdriver

After fifteen years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. Unable to distinguish reality from hallucination he unravels and forces himself to go back to where it all began.

Cast

Ziad Bakri

as Ziad

Areen Omari

as Ziad's mother

Jameel Khoury

as Octopus

Yasmine Qaddumi

as Mina

Mariam Basha

as Nawal

Amir Khoury

as Ziad (teen)

Maya Omaia Keesh

as Salma

Ahmad Jubeh

as Mo-Mo

Sanad Amina

as Sanad

Adham Abu Aqel

as Ramzi (teen)

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