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Ouroboros (2017)

Directed by Basma Alsharif
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Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.

1h 14min

Overall average

5.0/10

Plot

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.

Genres

Documentary

Technical details

DetailValue
Original titleOuroboros
Original languageالعربية (AR)
Spoken languagesالعربية, English, Italiano
Production countriesBelgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Qatar
StatusReleased
Production companiesArab Fund for Arts and Culture, Idioms Film, International Digital Artist (IDA), Momento Film
Release date29 aprile 2017
ProductionSami Said, Émilie Dudognon, Eyal Sivan, Mohanad Yaqubi, Ella Anderson, Yaser Murtaja, Nour Mobarak, Mona Varichon
WriterBasma Alsharif
EditingBasma Alsharif, Benoit Delval
CinematographyBen Russell, Alee Peoples, Motasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh
Assistant directorsBasma Alsharif
Camera operatorsMotasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh, Alee Peoples
Additional photographyAlee Peoples, Motasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh
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Release dates

Premiere

United States / Apr 29, 2017

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