Set in the north of Syria, a village idiot with an enormous nose (Ismail) falls in love with his beautiful neighbor (Salma), thus he sends his handsome friend – who also falls in love with her- to deliver her oral love letters.

Verbal Letters.avi

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Container:  	avi
Runtime: 	1 h 48 min
Size: 	0.99 GiB
Video
Codec: 	MPEG-4
Resolution: 	608x368
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	1 153 kb/s
BPP: 	0.172
Audio
#1:  	Arabic 2.0ch MPEG Audio @ 128 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FA2CD94D712CA18/Verbal_Letters.avi

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English hardcoded

The post Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid – Rassaelle Chafahyia AKA Oral Messages (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This is a great little short from the back-catalogue of the 70s-80s Syrian art/experimental scene. It is a nine minute short about hands. Hands, and the things hands do. It’s handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music…

There’s not much worth adding, partly because I really don’t know much more about this excellent short, but also because I think it speaks for itself, made in the regionally barbaric year of 1982 by an activist/filmmaker in Syria, it is in part a very personal anti-war scream of horror and in part a very state-funded piece of socialist/Ba’athist agitprop about labour and community.

But its ultimately about hands. And hand completists should have it!

https://nitro.download/view/404B0574EB4155C/Our_Hands__-_1982_-_Abdellatif_Abdul-Hamid.avi

Language(s):No Dialogue
Subtitles:None

The post Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid – Aayadina aka Our Hands (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.