The Chant

The chant is a jordanian short film, it follows three neighbors from different age groups that interconnect with each other on a course of one day.

The characters are brought together by Mariam, a woman in her 70s that suffers from Alzaheimers and nostalgic for her past. Mariam keeps following a sound that she believes it’s a calling from her anscestors for an old practise where they used to chant for the rain to fall in dry seasons. The second story is about Aya, a woman in her 30s, She and her husband are trying to conceive a baby through IVF. on this day, and on her fourth attempt, they are waiting for the results to come out.

The third story is about a teenager, Haneen, she unexpectedly gets a visit from her friend Leen, who never visited her before. As Haneeen tries to hide some stuff that belongs to her father around the house. We eventually find out that her father is a dwarf. As these three stories reach their climax with their struggles, Mariam goes on the building’s roof and starts chanting her ancestors song, believing that it will rain. Despite people’s laughter at her at the beginning. Eventually, we see everyone in the neighborhood coming out from their balconies/windows including Aya and Haneen as they chant with Mariam, reviving their hope and overcoming their struggles when it starts to rain.