Synopsis
Eighty-year-old Samira spends her days in her large apartment, caring for her life-sized goldfish Coucou and warding off the outside world with pieces of aluminum foil, which she tapes to the walls and ceiling. But when an upstairs neighbour’s laundry lands on her balcony, Samira’s already fragile mental state shatters. With its eerie and disturbing atmosphere, ‘Coucou’ brilliantly captures the distorted reality of the senile mind.
Sections & Films
COUCOU
Category: Edition 2015
| Original Title | COUCOU |
| Category | Out of competition |
| Section | Made in Qatar |
| Tipology | Short Film |
| Duration | 10' |
| Production Year | 2013 |
| Nationality | Qatar |
| Directed by | Meriem Mesraoua |
| Screenplay | Meriem Mesraoua |
| Director of photography | Wielder Catapat |
| Editor | Abdul Jabbar Maki |
| Music | Chris Adamescu |
| Main cast |
Badriah Ahmed Nassan Carole Sabbagha Suliman Fadlelbari Saoud Al Gosaibi Rashad Eid Coucou |
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Meriem Mesraoua
She was born in Qatar and raised in France. She returned to Doha while in high school, and earned a B.Sc with Honours in Media Industries and Technologies from Northwestern University in Qatar. Mesraoua explored various facets of the film industry through internships with Miramax and NYWIFT, and as a production trainee on Michael Winterbottom’s award-winning film ‘Trishna’ in 2011. In the same year, she wrote and directed her first short film, ‘Awaiting’.
Production
Torath Production
Festival contact
Doha Film Institute
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