A Jordanian girl, who had run away from home because she refused to marry her cousin (tradition in Jordan) goes to live with her married sister in New York. After nearly 5 years in America she meets a Jordanian businessman on Facebook and they get very close. She is impressed by photos of his expensive cars and factories and all his talk of success. She begins to dream that maybe this is her man and she should grab him before another girl gets the chance.
FACEBOOK ROMANCE
Film is in post-production, shot entirely in Amman Jordan and Cairo Egypt In August 2012. To be released early in 2013.
Genre: Comedy Drama
Written & Directed by Mohydeen Quandour
Producer: Luba Balagova
Starring
Mohamed Karim as Samir
Lamitta Frangieh as Lubna
Mohamed Al Abadi as Abu Akram
Mona Shehabi as Maha and Lubna’s mother
Ed Ward as Michael
Sandra Kawar as Girl friend
Mohammed Al Fassid as Omar
Salar Zarza as Waleed
Nabeel Kony as Father of Lubna
Production
Line-Producer : Mahmoud Hourani
Director of Photography: Khalil Shawish
Editor: Anas Shabsough
Music:
Principal Crew List
Assitant Director: Farah Khatib
Assistant Producer: Lina Abu Hassan
Camera Operator: Salar Zarza
Sound Mixer: Amjad Omuosh
Assistant Camera: Sami Kattan
Art Director: Ayoub Nahas
Wardrobe: Fikria
Assistant Wardrobe: Noureldin Muqbel
Makeup: Wafa’a Zoubi & Farah Jeda’an
Hairdresser: Issa Muharib
Boom Operator: Yousef Al Haj
Head Gaffer: Zeid Abu Khousa,
Best Boy: Ala’a
Grip: Khaldoun Tayseer
Production Assistant: Tarek Shoubaki
Location Manager: Amer Hourani
Transport: Huthaifa Aqel, Mohamad Rammouni, Saleh Badir
Synopsis
Background
A Jordanian girl, who had run away from home because she refused to marry her cousin (tradition in Jordan) goes to live with her married sister in New York. After nearly 5 years in America she meets a Jordanian businessman on Facebook and they get very close. She is impressed by photos of his expensive cars and factories and all his talk of success. She begins to dream that maybe this is her man and she should grab him before another girl gets the chance.
The film begins with her arrival at the airport and her taking a taxi. She decided to surprise him with a visit!!! Waleed, her facebook boyfriend is shocked when she calls him and does not know how to react. He makes excuses that he is busy in meetings and that he has a crisis at the factory etc . and begins avoiding answering her calls.
The girl (Lubna) is still in the taxi driving around not knowing what to do, go to a hotel or what...She does not have an address.
Her Egyptian Taxi driver turns out in the end not to be a taxi driver at all but the owner of the taxi company. She develops sympathy towards him while still determined to give her facebook boyfriend benefit of the doubt. Many comic situations happen during the day which finally leads Samir (Taxi Driver) to call a friend in the Intelligence department to find out the residence address of this lover-boy tycoon. He does and he takes Lubna to a very shabby poor area of Amman. The address is a run down building and the girl refuses to believe that this is where he lives. To prove that Samir is wrong she goes to the flat and knocks on the door. The door is opened by Waleed in his dirty torn pajamas carrying a baby in his arms. Shock...they look at each other mesmerized.
Soon three little children surround their father and finally a pregnant woman.
It becomes obvious that the Tycoon Walid is not what he pretended to be on facebook at all.
You can guess the ending. Samir, the so called Taxi driver takes the weeping Lubna to his office and she is shocked again how appearances are deceiving. The taxi driver is a real- live successful businessman with a fleet of taxis and a beautiful office. A true romance begins where the Facebook romance ended.
Most of the film is shot in the Taxi with flashbacks telling the above story.
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