Greetings from Aleppo
Syrian photographer Issa Touma regularly travels from Europe to his city of birth, Aleppo. He visits family, friends and students who still live there, primarily viewing it as his task to record the art of survival during one of the biggest human dramas of our time.
Screens before Als Paul über das Meer kam.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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El becerro pintado
Exodus 32 and a contemporary retelling of the story of the golden calf. Somewhere on a remote island a clever deception takes place. -
Three Wavelengths
Experimental documentary about a gigantic communications tower just outside a small, rural Finnish village. The wind regularly makes the tower resonat -
Couplets for an Everlasting Eve
Collective animation provides strong condemnation of sexual violence. The form was inspired by the Basque tradition of celebrating St. Agatha by going door to door,… -
Ain’t Got No Fear
Together with a group of lads from no man’s land, Mikhail Karikis created a video in which they passionately sing about their lot. -
Commodity City
A fascinating look at the daily lives of stallholders at the world’s largest market in the Chinese city of Yiwu. -
Welcome Home Allen
A group of soldiers returns from battle, to a place where they don’t belong any more. Two worlds collide in a humorous and compassionate way. -
Rhinoceros
“Say something new!” Moving in together confronts a couple with inevitable adjustments to their personal autonomy. -
Extrapolate
In this hand-drawn animation, a line is being extrapolated through a grid. After exceeding the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to its -
Fish Story
Fact-checking has never seemed so enjoyable as in this short documentary tale by Charlie Lyne about family myths, fish and ingenious marketing.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Syria
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
