“composed with the precision of paintings”

Synopsis
“A surreal depiction of life in a village out of a strikingly beautiful Syrian landscape. Oussama Mohammad’s immensely visual representation of love, hate, violence and family relationships is no less than a masterpiece… and I am using this word here without any reservations! While I usually feel more at home with popular cinema, this particular film is among the very few films, and maybe even the only film within the surrealist tradition that made me feel as enthralled as I did when I first saw Bunuel’s 1933 masterpiece ‘Land without Bread’.

Every single shot in the film is an equivalent to an elaborate canvas which brings forwards the harsh yet captivating detailed textures of life and culture in a timeless small Arab peasant village, all set to the background of the Syrian mountain region facing the Mediterranean. If it wasn’t for traditional anti-Arab bias in Film Festival circles, this film would have been appreciated as one of the most important cinematic events at least over the last ten years. ” — Some random IMDb user

Shown at:
Cannes Film Festival, London Film Festival, Alexandria International Film Festival, Calgary Film Festival, Rabat International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Carthage Film Festival, among others.

Winner of:
Grand Prize, Figueira da Foz International Film Festival(2002)
Don Quijote Award, Figueira da Foz International Film Festival(2002)
Special Prize of the Jury, Paris Biennal of Arab Cinema (2002)

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Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English [hardcoded]

The post Usama Muhammad – Sunduq al-dunyâ AKA Sacrifices (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria. Overturning all community expectations in times of war and national crisis, he ventures forth to meet his newly found destiny.

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Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:Arabic, English

The post Ameer Fakher Eldin – The Stranger (2021) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A simple peasant discovers that Al-Iqtaa (feudalism) authority is an extension of the colonial authority, when his land is taken from him. He is imprisoned, beaten and insulted by the gendarme. He escapes from the prison to go to the mountains with a rifle. There, he begins his bloody struggle with the gendarme and Al-Iqtaa bands. At that time, the conditions for revolution were not riped yet. Peasants were with him in soul, but their will was not theirs. So, he remains alone, his revolution is that of one person, and so it ends as it shall be.

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The post Nabil Maleh – Al-fahd AKA The Leopard (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck…

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

The post Tewfik Saleh – al-Makhdu’un AKA The Dupes (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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.

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

A double wedding in a small village turns to high drama when one bride runs away and the other refuses to go on with her marriage. The drama unveils the fragile balance holding together a family strained by an abusive father now replaced by the successful but corrupt eldest son, a pathologically enraged second son, and the troubles of the youngest son, rendered deaf by a violent blow his father dealt him as a child. Ultimately tragic, the film is rife with biting humor and sharp political critique as it exposes how the violence of arbitrary and absolute power in a patriarchal society seeps into the unit of a family. Stars in Broad Daylight, Ousama Mohammad’s first long feature, remains banned from screening in Syria because of its subversive representation and critical voice. Selected at the «Quinzaine des Réalisateurs» at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.

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Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English

The post Usama Muhammad – Stars in Broad Daylight (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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For many of us, when we first hear the name Mosul City, we immediately think of the brutal reign of the so-called “Islamic State”, of humanitarian crisis, devastation and slow recovery. However, this film tells the story of Mosul beyond these stereotypes, examining the aftermath of war, the environment of the city and its communal places as well as the once thriving energy of the city and its multi-ethnic inhabitants.

The film won the NETPAC Jury Prize at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival in April 2021. Despite the wide selection of feature films, the jury unanimously gave preference to the documentary Mosul My Home directed by Adalet Garmiany. This artistically outstanding work is a journey into the peaceful, abundant and warm-hearted past of Mosul, now in ruins. Artistic techniques invented by the authors create additional energy for the film. Following the hero’s feet, plunging into the shadow of his image on the wall, contemplating the once prosperous, but now almost destroyed spiritual, historical and cultural shrines, the viewer, on the one hand, touches upon the former greatness of Mosul, and on the other, realizes the monstrous consequences of the war. This documentary journey is filled with love and compassion for its city, and is an eloquent manifestation of the power of art, memory and humanity.

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https://nitro.download/view/647423A47FEB0E6/Mosul.My.Home.2021.1080p.mkv

Language(s):Multiple Languages: Iraqi Arabic
Subtitles:English hard subbed

The post Adalet Garmiany – Mosul, My Home (2021) first appeared on Cinema of the World.