Chained Prey
Qumra Projects
/ Short Narrative / 2018
Interests: Animation
Rated: Mature subject matter. Not suitable for minors. Individuals under the age of 18 are not admitted into cinemas.
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Synopsis
Batistuta, an Argentinian domestic falcon, lives in Doha with Sultan, his young Qatari falconer. Batistuta has the luxury of being taken out to the desert by Sultan to hunt his prey. One day, Sultan decides to release Batistuta into the desert to live like a wild bird. But Batistuta faces a moment of insecurity he never expected. ‘Chained Prey’ is a story about the dilemma of choosing between security and freedom.
About the Director
In 2006, Muhammad Refaat left the faculty of engineering to study Television and Cinema Directing at Cairo University. For his graduation project, he wrote and directed his debut short documentary, ‘The Kingdom’ (2010), which was named Best Foreign-Language Film at the International Student Film Festival Hollywood. In 2010, he received a scholarship to study Film Production in the Netherlands, where he participated in making a feature-length documentary about the experiences of international students abroad. In 2014, Refaat moved to Doha to join the Al Jazeera Documentary production team. There, he has worked as a commissioning producer on several films around the MENA region. In 2017, he wrote the short film ‘Chained Prey’ at the Doha Film Institute-Torino Film Lab’s Short Scriptwriting Narrative Scriptwriting Lab. The screenplay went on to win the Best Screenplay award at the Cinephilia screenwriting lab at the Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam.