Panic Attack
Racing images and visual elements distort reality and embody the surreal, taking the viewer into a visceral manifestation of a Panic Attack, through a deformed chronological trip of its disturbing stages. With an abstract plot and minimal dialogue, the symbolic struggle between the victim and the captor emerges, demonstrating a first-hand mental experience of a Syrian-regime detainee.
The film questions the paradigm of modern humanity and its most basic of values; drawing criticism from the violence experienced within the detention center on the entirety of the human civilization and its nature.
Panic Attack, an urgent short experimental film, documents an element of the filmmaker’s existential crisis created by his incarceration, within one of the infamous Syrian-regime secret service detention centers for practicing basic forms of freedom of expression; denouncing the regime.
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khaled alwareaDirector
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khaled alwareaWriter
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khaled alwareaProducer
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L-YASSound Design
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Project Title (Original Language):نوبة هلع
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:11 minutes 24 seconds
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Completion Date:June 1, 2016
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Production Budget:300 USD
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Country of Origin:Syrian Arab Republic
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Country of Filming:Lebanon
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Language:Arabic
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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67th Montecatini International Short Film Festival,Tuscany
Italy
October 8, 2016
European/ Italian Premiere
Official Selection -
7th annual Oaxaca FilmFestOaxaca
Mexico
October 12, 2016
Mexican Premiere
Official Selection -
20th Annual Arab Film FestivalLA
United States
October 12, 2016
North American Premiere
Official Selection -
Bucharest ShortCut CinefestBucharest
Romania
September 8, 2016
Romanian Premiere
Official Selection -
Experimental ForumLA
United States
Official Selection -
Awareness Film FestivalLA
United States
Merit Award -
NEW FILM FESTLA
United States
Official Selection -
Respect Belfast Human Rights Film FestivalBelfast
Ireland
North Ireland Premiere
Official Selection -
Pages Films ManifestIstanbul
Turkey
February 9, 2017
Turkish Premiere -
Autumn Sonata, Haven for artist Arts FestivalAlleh
Lebanon -
Kinosmena Festival
Russian Federation
Official Selection -
International Short Film Festival Music & Fashion Parachute Light Zéro IV Editionparis
France
June 1, 2017
French Premier
Official Selection -
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'iya Beirut Cinema DaysBeirut
Lebanon
Arab Primier
Official Selection -
KulturhusetStockholm
Sweden -
AccessCode Film Festival
India
Official Selection -
Film Egypt FestivalCairo
Egypt
Official Selection -
SCANDINAVIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALHelsinki
Finland
Official Selection -
GEOFILMFESTIVAL and EXPOCINEMACittadella
Italy
Official Selection
Khaled ِAlwarea is a Syrian Architect and multidisciplinary artist based in France, his work takes multiple forms including installation design, visual art, photography, sculpture, film-making, architecture, and interior design.
He worked as a professional photographer and participated in several collaborations and exhibitions globally. He produced, filmed, edited several short films including his latest “Panic Attack” where it has been screened in multiple film festivals around the world.
In 2014 Khaled founded UV LAB design studio where he realized several projects in Installation art, architecture, interior design and set design in the middle east and Europe. In addition, Khaled was involved in the refugee crisis response by designing and building schools where none existed in tented settlements to foster education for children and mitigate child labor across Lebanon.