Short FIlm
Playtime
(2014, Kuwait)
Director: Hamad Altourah
Synopsis: Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him alone for a night out and he tries to fill his time with the company of Dalal, a local girl who lives around the corner. Dalal is attempting to sneak out herself and, after a brief evening with Matthew, proposes to ‘borrow’ his mother’s car while she is out. Matthew, refusing to be left alone again, sneaks into the ‘borrowed’ car, and escapes with Dalal into Kuwait’s underworld. On his secret night out, Matthew learns an inconvenient truth regarding his relationship with Dalal. Far removed from his residential neighborhood, Matthew must now forge a way back home to his mother.
