Pick Me Up

DIRECTOR

Layal Akiki

RUN TIME

14 Minutes

LANGUAGE

Arabic

YEAR

2018

Country

Lebanon

English Subtitles

Yes

Genre

Short

Cast

Maria Khayssi, Charbel Aoun, Joseph Zaitouny

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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