In 2010, this film started out as an ordinary documentary about the maker’s family and the city of Salamya where they live. However, it immediately fixates on its first subject: Hassan, the maker’s farmer cousin with a shed full of cows he is very fond of. When Ali Sheikh Khudr returned two years later, the war proved to have inflicted deep wounds.
Also in this combined programme
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No One Gets Out Of Here Alive
As a Syrian refugee in Beirut, Walid wants to do everything by the book, but that proves difficult in this time and place. -
9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo
Syrian photographer Issa Touma recorded the first days of the revolt in Aleppo from his window. An exceptional angle on a war.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Egypt, Syria
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 60'
- Medium/Format
- File
