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Ouroboros (2017) [N/A]

Release Date:
April 29, 2017

Original Title:
Ouroboros

Genres:
Documentary

Production Companies:
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Idioms Film
International Digital Artist (IDA)
Momento Film

Production Countries:
Belgium | France | Palestinian Territory | Qatar

Ratings / Certifications:
N/A

Runtime: 74

Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.

Overview from TheMovieDB

This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.

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Production

Art Direction:
Alaa El-Baba

Associate Producer:
Ella Anderson
Nour Mobarak
Mona Varichon

Camera Operator:
Motasem Murtaja
Yaser Murtaja
Misheal Qahwasmeh

Cinematography:
Ben Russell

Co-Producer:
Émilie Dudognon
Eyal Sivan

Color Timer:
Benoit Delval

Director:
Basma Alsharif

Editor:
Basma Alsharif

Line Producer:
Sami Said
Yaser Murtaja

Original Music Composer:
Yann Gourdon
Bunny People

Post-Production Manager:
Jean-Philippe Laroche

Producer:
Mohanad Yaqubi

Production Manager:
Hortense Quitard

Sound Mixer:
Matthieu Deniau

Sound Recordist:
Mohanad Yaqubi
Federico Chiari
Nabil Al-Hadhoud

Still Photographer:
Alee Peoples

Writer:
Basma Alsharif

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