Pick Me Up
DIRECTOR
Layal Akiki
RUN TIME
14 Minutes
LANGUAGE
Arabic
YEAR
2018
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COUNTRY
Lebanon
GENRE
Short
CAST
Maria Khayssi, Charbel Aoun, Joseph Zaitouny
ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Yes
Classification
No age restrictions
SYNOPSIS
Sally, in her early twenties and part of the Production team in a shoot, finds herself taking on many of her friend’s tasks. With an important competition and a deadline looming over her head, and the only one helping her is Ghazi, the pick-up truck driver.
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