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Nezouh

Soudade Kaadan
Filmfestival
Fri 21 Apr 23 - Mon 1 May 23

While her family has to choose between the danger of falling bombs and an uncertain future as refugee, Zeina discovers a new world when a missile smashes a hole in her house.

Fourteen-year-old Zeina and her family belong to the last inhabitants remaining in the besieged city of Damascus. A missile smashes a hole in their house, suddenly exposing them to the outside world. Zeina is allowed her first taste of freedom: she sleeps under the stars and makes a surprising friend. But it doesn’t take long before the violence in the streets rises again.

 

The sunny images of a bombed Damascus convey an almost fairy-tale like portrait of the hard choice between believing in a hopeful life in Syria and the uncertain existence as a refugee.

direction
Soudade Kaadan
cast
Samer al Masri, Kinda Alloush, Hala Zein
duration
100 min
year
2022
country
France
language
Arabic
Subtitles
Dutch
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Kaadan's beautifully poetic film is a fable of two women, the men who love them and the power and magic that love carries with it.

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