Příběhy ze Sýrie

Ahmad is a Syrian child who doesn’t want to remember that he is Syrian. Half traumatized, half trying to escape his reality, he prefers to be silent and asleep. In his silence and refusal to talk, he takes us on a journey where individual and collective Syrian memories collapse.

Občanská válka v Sýrii uvrhla tamější obyvatele do stavu permanentní nejistoty. Sledujeme devět hrdinů, kteří musejí být neustále připraveni, že budou nuceni náhle opustit své domovy. Zmar a vykořeněnost postav zdůrazňují záměrně nedokonalé záběry z ruční kamery či zrnitý obraz z konverzací na Skypeu.

Začínající syrská režisérka Liwaa Yazji se zatím pohybovala hlavně v divadelním prostředí. Upozornila na sebe scénářem k televiznímu seriálu The Brothers (2013). Prokletí jsou jejím režijním debutem.

Two years later, with thousands dead and counting, the ongoing conflict in Syria has become a microcosm for the complicated politics of the region, and an unsavory reflection of the world at large. Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, NATO’s toppling of Moammar Qaddafi in Libya, and the complicated politics of the region, this film seeks to explore the Syrian conflict through the humanity of the civilians who have been killed, abused, and displaced to the squalor of refugee camps...

Syria. A body undulating in the wind, in the evening light, a graceful and fragile silhouette of a dancer filmed close to the skin. Such is what is stated, in reverse, in the project of this fi rst fi lm by Rafat Alzakout: beauty and the work of art as a guide for a fi lm shot in the turmoil of civil war while bodies become destroyed fl esh. We follow a small group of men including Ahmad the dancer, Taj the art teacher and former lieutenant, without forgetting, unseen but dialoguing with them, Alzakout...