VOICES SHORT
Homeland Syria After more than three years of war a large proportion of the Syrian population has fled. Three personal stories from Syrians who, each in their own way, are trying to escape the violence.
9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege, Issa Touma One morning in August 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma saw students dragging sandbags down his street. It proved to be the start of the Syrian revolt in Aleppo. He grabbed his camera and recorded the first nine days from his window. An exceptional angle on a war that has already lasted well over three years. Netherlands/Syria, 2015 | colour, DCP, 13 min, Arabic Prod: Jos de Putter | Prod Comp: DeepFocus WebDocs | Sc: Issa Touma | Cam: Issa Touma | Ed: Floor van der Meulen, Thomas Vroege | Sound Des: Tom Jansen | Print/Sales: Some Shorts | www.someshorts.com
Mazraaet al abkaar The Cow Farm
Ali Sheikh Khudr 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. WORLD PREMIERE
Syria/Egypt, 2016 | colour, video, 60 min, Arabic Prod: Ali Sheikh Khudr | Sc: Ali Seikh Khudr | Cam: Ali Seikh Khudr | Ed: Ali Seikh Khudr | Prod Des: Ali Seikh Khudr | Sound Des: Simon Abou Assali | Print/Sales: Ali Sheikh Khudr
No One Gets Out Of Here Alive Ramzi Bashour The story of Walid, a crane driver from Syria trying to survive in Beirut. The hours are long and the work dangerous. The hopeless situation has everyone and everything in its grasp. Please let there be some hope somewhere. WORLD PREMIERE
Lebanon, 2016 | colour, DCP, 11 min, Arabic/English Prod: Ramzi Bashour | Sc: Ramzi Bashour | Cam: Ramzi Bashour | Ed: Ramzi Bashour | Prod Des: Ramzi Bashour | Sound Des: Ramzi Bashour | Music: Ramzi Bashour | With: Quosey Bachir, Ali Ikarri, Abdallah Zaher, Rami Rkab | Print/Sales: Ramzi Bashour
45TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
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