United States / Apr 29, 2017
Ouroboros (2017)
Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.
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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.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ouroboros |
| Original language | العربية (AR) |
| Spoken languages | العربية, English, Italiano |
| Production countries | Belgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Qatar |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Idioms Film, International Digital Artist (IDA), Momento Film |
| Release date | 29 aprile 2017 |
| Production | Sami Said, Émilie Dudognon, Eyal Sivan, Mohanad Yaqubi, Ella Anderson, Yaser Murtaja, Nour Mobarak, Mona Varichon |
| Writer | Basma Alsharif |
| Editing | Basma Alsharif, Benoit Delval |
| Cinematography | Ben Russell, Alee Peoples, Motasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh |
| Assistant directors | Basma Alsharif |
| Camera operators | Motasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh, Alee Peoples |
| Additional photography | Alee Peoples, Motasem Murtaja, Yaser Murtaja, Misheal Qahwasmeh |
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| Production design | Alaa El-Baba |
| Art direction | Alaa El-Baba |
| Set decoration | Alaa El-Baba |
| Music | Yann Gourdon, Bunny People, Mohanad Yaqubi, Federico Chiari, Matthieu Deniau, Nabil Al-Hadhoud |
| Sound | Yann Gourdon, Mohanad Yaqubi, Federico Chiari, Bunny People, Matthieu Deniau, Nabil Al-Hadhoud |
| Budget | 232.000 € |
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