Filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon, shortly before the infamous massacre of 1982, this Syrian documentary’s principle reference is dreams, and not lived reality. It plays in this way on a double register, whereby women, children, the elderly, and combatants each recall the reality of their everyday, transposed eerily into their dreams, nightmares and premonitions.

Ultimately they converge on what the Palestinians have had taken away from them: their homeland. Mohammad Malas is a prolific filmmaker, working in art, fiction, and documentary genres after teaching philosophy at Damascus University in the 1960s, he turned to film and has since produced numerous award winning works, notably a series of powerful documentaries on political prisoners in the Arab world. He has also published novels and writes frequently on Arab cinema.

The Dream.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/1D931B06D91C1D2/The_Dream.mkv

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Mohammad Malas – Al-manam AKA The Dream (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“Mother, come and see how beautiful Damascus is!”, little Omar cries out to his mother, a young woman drained by mourning. The widely acclaimed, partially autobiographical, Dreams of the City marks the turn towards auteur Syrian cinema, resurrecting the memories of childhood of the working poor. A young widow and her two sons are forced to move from their native Quneytra to Damascus, where her father forces them to fend for themselves. Against the backdrop of successive military coups that punctuated the turbulent 1950s in Syria, Adib, the eldest of the boys comes of age in the vast and overwhelming urban magic of Damascus. The image of mosques, faces and the greenery of Damascus swirl by as Adib witnesses a dizzying and violent day in the city. At last, the wounded child gazes at the full moon; the city shatters against it.

1.74GB | 2 h 4 min | 864×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2881437F6032508/Dreams_of_the_City.mkv

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Mohamed Malas – Ahlam el Madina AKA Dreams of the City (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The Night or Al-Lail (Arabic: الليل‎) (The Night) is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. The film explores the Arab-Israeli conflict as seen through the experiences of an Arab family in newly liberated city of Quneitra, headed by a resistance fighter. Al-Lail was the first Syrian feature to be played at the New York Film Festival on October 4, 1993.

Synopsis:
The Night is set in the village of Quneytra, which borders on the Golan, a key battlefield in the 1967 war between Syria and Israel. We are led to the grave of the filmmakers’ father, an old Syrian fighter who joined the volunteer armies in Palestine in the Great Revolt of 1936. Trying to exorcise feelings of shame and humiliation that have long accompanied the image of his father and the village occupied by Israelis during the war of 1967, Malas tries to restore his father’s history and give him a more honorable death. But tracing the outline of a memory tortured by burning questions finds only bitter answers. The film is Malas’ second feature, often perceived as the ‘prequel’ to his first, equally visually stunning, Dreams of the City. —arteeast.org

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https://nitroflare.com/view/1338055B62DFD56/al-lail_the_night.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F46552399AB92C7/al-lail_the_night.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/B25A1D86028162D/Al_Lail_%28The_Night%29_-_revised.srt

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:hardcoded French and German,English

The post Mohamed Malas – Al-lail AKA The Night (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.