The Passport | Pre-Production
A mysterious man from Gaza, on his way to Canada, dies on the layover 2014 - Sissi topples Morsy and the coup in Egypt shuts the last open bor- ders with Gaza. Mr. Khawajah is a 55-year-old man who manages a factory in the Gaza strip. Pressured by the Chase of Hamas secret operatives, he wants to visit his brother in Canada and end a past quarrel. While the border with Egypt is closed, the only way to get out of Gaza is to take the tunnel and then take a flight from Egypt. After going through plenty of challenging escapes, including getting smuggled, Mr. Khawajah succeeds in taking a flight on Serbian Airlines, which stops at Belgrade International Airport. Midway through the flight, Mr. Khawajah surprisingly but peacefully dies. After the doctors pronounce a natural death, the journey to find a solution to dismiss the corpse begin. His death creates a dilemma and a rising burden on the Serbian staff who do not know what to do with his body since he has a Palestinian passport (Gaza). They are unable to return his body to Gaza, the Egyptian authorities refuse to receive him, the Israeli authorities deny his entry and the Serbian staff cannot allow him in because he doesn’t have a Visa. After extensive examinations, they decide to open his luggage, to manage the dilemma, but this complicates the case as they find a smug- gled endangered turtle in a hamburger. What are they going to to do with him?borders with Gaza have all shut down. But who is this man anyway and what was he traveling for?
