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It Gets Darker

Firas ABOU FAKHER / Daniel HABIB

Lebanon202123min Korean Premiere

Synopsis

A perfect combination of pleasure and revenge. The main character’s rage toward people regardless of pain, as well as a person being violent towards them is persuasive enough. When the explosive rage meets horror, the most extreme thrill that genre film can offer will be spurting gore. It is impressive how the director not to miss the character’s emotions in the blood fest. (LEE Dongyun)

Diretor

Firas ABOU FAKHER

Firas Abou Fakher is a director, writer, and composer. His work as part of Mashrou’ Leila has earned him accolades and awards across the world. His compositions for Film, Sound Installations, and VR experiences have generated narrative thinking in his music, and his deep-rooted love for Arab story-telling brought him to founding Last Floor productions. At Last Floor Productions, he co-created Al Shak and Fixer and served as creative director on projects for Apple and the V&A. It Gets Darker won Tokyo International Short Film Festival: Winner Best International Horror.

Daniel HABIB

Daniel Habib is a writer, producer, and director from Beirut, Lebanon who started his career in 2011 as the lead writer on the second season of the critically acclaimed series Beirut, I Love You. In 2013, he co-founded and managed Heyoka Media, a digital production house specializing in non-fiction alternative Arabic content across multiple platforms and formats. He now dedicates his time leading a team of writers developing original Arab Genre fiction as the head writer and co-founder of Last Floor Productions. Daniel teaches Scriptwriting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and acts as a script consultant for several major streaming services in the Arab region.