Al munataf (2015) Online
Radi, an isolated mysterious guy, who lives in his old VW minivan, finds himself starting an interesting journey.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Ashraf Barhom | - | Radi |
 | Fatina Laila | - | Laila |
 | Mazen Moadam | - | Sami (as Mazen Moudam) |
 | Ashraf Telfah | - | Policeman |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Sameera Asir | - | Nurse #2 |
| Saad Eldin Atiyyeh | - | Taxi Driver |
| Tayseer Breiji | - | Taxi Passenger |
| Hind Hamed | - | Nurse #1 |
The blue minivan plate number is 18-41949, refers to 18th of April 1949, which is the birth date of the director's late father.
The photo that appears on the wall inside the demolished house where Sami is waiting, is the photo of the director's late father.
For casting Laila's role, director Rifqi Assaf went to Damascus and back in one day back in 2010, to meet and audition Syrian actress Fatina Laila, he decided she got the role once he saw her face on the side screen of his handy camera.
For writing the Lebanese character Sami, played by Mazen Moadam, director Rifqi Assaf, went and stayed in Beirut - Lebanon for a week, just to feel the vibes and imagery the character was raised around and came from.
According to director Rifqi Assaf he approached later to be co-producer of the film Mohamed Hefzy for another project back in 2009, a project which didn't seem to work out at the time, so he sent him the screenplay of Al munataf (2015), Hefzy then told him that this is the project he should really concentrate on and pursue with.
Composer Suad Bushnaq composed the original score of the film mostly on buses and trains to catch the feeling of the road trip journey.
According to writer director Rifqi Assaf producer Rula Nasser was a great help in the rewriting stage, she always asked many good questions that triggered improvements on the script, including less dialogue and more image driven story.
According to writer director Rifqi Assaf one of the reasons of his choice to cooperate with cinematographer Piotr Jaxa to shoot the film, was because he (the director) is a big fan of Krzysztof Kieslowski, of whom Piotr have worked with in the past as a still photographer and second unit cinematographer.