Blind Sun

Ashraf (Ziad Bakri of Elia Suleiman's The Time That Remains) is a foreigner with a simple job: house-sitting a French expat's seaside villa on a lonely stretch of the coast. Or at least it seems like a simple job, until a sadistic police officer takes away his residence permit, leaving him stranded in a hostile country. Ashraf's attempts to get his papers back land him in a bureaucratic purgatory, and he descends into paranoia. As the locals eye him with mistrust and he tries to find relief from the crushing heat of the Mediterranean sun, he senses a menacing presence creeping ever closer, pushing him over the edge into a destructive nightmare. (Toronto International Film Festival)