Abdullah and Leilah
Synopsis
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 19 mins 32 secs
- Format
- 2K
- Director
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Ashtar Al Khirsan
- Producer
- Dominique Unsworth
- Editor
- Tracy Granger ACE
- Screenwriter
- Ashtar Al Khirsan; Script Editor: Adeela Sharif
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Trivic
- Production Designer
- Caroline Steiner
- Sound
- Doug Haywood
- Composer
- Tara Creme
- Principal cast
- Sami Abdulhameed, Houda Echouafni
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Production Status
Production Company
Resource Productions
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