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Saarbrucken

The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Saarbrücken
Germany

June 24 - 29 , 2016

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Documentary Films
# 1
Friday June 24th, 2016 / 8.30 pm
Kino Achteinhalb
Saarbrücken / Germany

 

Our Terrible Country
Baladna alraheeb
Our Terrible Country


Mohammad Ali Atassi, Ziad Homsi

Syria

2014 | 1:25:00

This road movie portrays the perilous journey of well-known intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh and young photographer Ziad Homsi through Syria, at a time when the country edges towards the brink. Yassin (53), who spent 16 years in prison for belonging to the Syrian left, goes underground in 2011 to serve Syria’s popular uprising, while Ziad (24) - occasionally fighting with the rebels - takes photographs in his hometown Douma. In this Damascene suburb – where Yassin and his wife Samira Khalil found shelter - the two men meet and become friends. Together, they embark on an adventurous journey through the desert to al-Haj Saleh’s native town Raqqa in Northeast Syria. Upon their arrival, Raqqa is occupied by the "Islamic State in Iraq and Levant" (ISIS), which also kidnapped two brothers of Yassin. Consequently, the thinker leaves for Istanbul to pursue his writing for the revolution, hoping for a reunion with his wife Samira who remained in Douma. Ziad – abducted by ISIS on his way back – rejoins Yassin after his release, hoping to return home soon. All hopes are shattered when Samira gets abducted jointly with human rights lawyer Razan Zeitouneh. And the film ends while Syria tumbles into a yawning abyss.



 
Extrait :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKGxGDBXwQ
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Juni 24 - 29, 2016

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.


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