Usama Muhammad – Sunduq al-dunyâ AKA Sacrifices (2002)
“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)
General / Container Stream # 1
Video Codecs Used -> XviD
Audio Codecs Used -> MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
File Format -> AVI
Play Time -> 1h 48mn
Total File Size -> 1.01 GiB
Total Stream BitRate -> 1 337 Kbps
Video Stream # 1
Codec (Human Name) -> MPEG-4 Visual
Codec (FourCC) -> XVID
Codec Profile -> Simple@L3
Frame Width -> 624 pixels
Frame Height -> 352 pixels
Frame Rate -> 23.976 fps
Total Frames -> 155613
Display Aspect Ratio -> 16/9
https://nitro.download/view/539A78412122B7F/Sunduq_al-dunyaa_AKA_Sacrifices.avi
Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English [hardcoded]
