As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night
Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace.
– Leonie Woodfin
Also in this combined programme
Film details
- Countries of production
- Denmark, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 21'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
