Project Detail

Trouble Sleeping

Rebekah Bowman

Synopsis

Trouble Sleeping tells the story of a Palestinian refugee, Ahmed, and his struggle to survive and remain a good man. He is about to be deported from the UK and be forced into a return to the Middle East which is fraught with danger. Halla knows a secret which can save him but he cost of revealing that secret will be terrible for her.

Trouble Sleeping is based on the true stories of refugees in Scotland.

Details

Year: 2008
Type of project: Features
Running time: 107 mins
Format: HiDef
Director: Robert Rae 1st Feature
Producer: Ewan Angus, Leslie Finlay
Co-Producer: Ewan Angus, Leslie Finlay
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
Screenwriter: Robert Rae, Ghazi Hussein, Saleyha Ashan, Lucy Kaya, James McSharry, Roxanna Pope
Director of Photography: Ian Dodds
Production Designer: Laurel Wear
Sound: Chris Campion
Composer: Jim Sutherland
Principal cast: Alia Alzougbi, Hassan Naama, Seham Ali, Okan Yahai, Wassim Abuglain, Fouad Cherif, Nihat Kaya, Robert Softely, Nabil Shaban, Gary Lewis, Alison Peebles

Genre

Scottish Asian Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Makar Productions

23 Parkhead Avenue
Edinburgh EH11 4SF
Scotland
UK

T+44 (0)13 1443 8056

makarprod@aol.com

Theatre Workshop

32 Hamilton Place
Edinburgh EH3 5AX
Scotland
UK

robertrae@blueyonder.co.uk

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www.trouble-sleeping.co.uk

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