DUBAI: Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan, who will showcase her lauded second feature film “Nezouh” at the ongoing Red Sea International Film Festival on Dec. 7, is no stranger to telling stories of conflict. But while other filmmakers may look to the violence and the tragedy, Kaadan turns to hope and the whimsical to bring context to the horrors. “Because the experience is
DUBAI: Here are just a few of the features from Arab filmmakers showing at this week’s Red Sea International Film Festival, which runs from Dec. 1-10 in Jeddah. ‘A Gaza Weekend’ Director: Basil Khalil Cast: Stephen Mangan, Loai Noufi, Mouna Hawa, Adam Bakri British-Palestinian filmmaker Basil Khalil’s debut feature has been eagerly awaited by cinema lovers following the
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VENICE: Venice International Film Festival title “Nezouh,” which means displacement or migration in Arabic, sees director Soudade Kaadan present an allegorical tale of female emancipation set during the height of the Syrian conflict in Damascus. In some ways Kaadan’s latest feature is an extension of her debut film, “The Day I Lost My Shadow,” which clinched the Lion of the
04/09/2022 - VENICE 2022: By way of an allegory and against a backdrop of female emancipation, Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan explores the dilemma of whether to stay or leave a town destroyed by war