Omar Amiralay: Sorrow, Time, Silence – Syrian Film Festival
- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE AR, FR
- SUBTITLES FR
- COUNTRY France, Syria
- Duration 109
Introducing
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the director Hala Alabdalla, and Rosa Issa and Nadia Aissaoui. There will also be a reception.
Synopsis
In a Syria wounded by the tyrannical regime, Omar Amiralay dedicated his life to his country and to cinema. Forty years of political commitment and documentary filmmaking. In 2008, he interrupted his plans to devote himself entirely to looking after his dying mother. She died in 2010, Omar leaves us one year later. Five weeks before the Syrian revolution.
Introducing
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the director Hala Alabdalla, and Rosa Issa and Nadia Aissaoui. There will also be a reception.
Synopsis
In a Syria wounded by the tyrannical regime, Omar Amiralay dedicated his life to his country and to cinema. Forty years of political commitment and documentary filmmaking. In 2008, he interrupted his plans to devote himself entirely to looking after his dying mother. She died in 2010, Omar leaves us one year later. Five weeks before the Syrian revolution.
This is not a portrait of the Syrian director Omar Amiralay.
This is not a cross-section of the current Syrian society, nor a longitudinal section of the fate of generations through fifty years under the yoke of a single political regime.
This is not an intimate and free dialogue between two friends united by the sacred fire of cinema and a passion for freedom.
This is not a testimony about a son’s love for his mother or his unwavering belief in justice. This is a feature-length documentary that aspires to all of these things at once, like the braid of a young Syrian girl.
Omar Amiralay was haunted by the Syrian cause, by the search for freedom and justice. He was one of the main opponents to Al Assad family and passed away in 2011. This film shows private moments of Hala Alabdalla’s discussions with Omar before his death, having now a unique testimony of his life.
At the same time, it is a broader reflexion about love and death, politics and cinema in the backdrop of the revolution.
This is a film, a letter, about the bitter pain of absence.
This spring, the European Union will convene the eighth Brussels Conference on “Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region,” set to take place on April 30th (Day of Dialogue) and May 27th (Ministerial Event). Over the past thirteen years, the Brussels Conference has emerged as the primary international gathering for Syria, and as a… Continue reading Omar Amiralay: Sorrow, Time, Silence – Syrian Film Festival
