The Hole’s Journey

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The Hole’s Journey, is a 2021 Saudi movie, directed by Ghita Skali, and starring Omar Radi. with a runtime of 16 minutes.

Overview

The Hole's Journey is a sharp political satire documentary directed by Ghita Skali. The film centers on a worn-out wooden floor section from an international art institute — scratched for 23 years by a director's chair — which is cut out and dispatched to an expropriated piece of land in Morocco. Through this absurd yet meaningful journey, Skali enlists a political activist and the Ouled Sbita tribe as unlikely protagonists, using wit, personal storytelling, and playful editing to probe specific power dynamics and the concept of freedom of choice. The result is a meditation on institutional authority, land rights, and individual agency that is both intellectually rigorous and unexpectedly entertaining.

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