One Day in Aleppo
Ali Al Ibrahim | Sweden, Syria | 2017 | 24'
Category - Shorts, Surviving My Homeland
INFO
SYNOPSIS
After five months of the suffocating siege and daily bombings of the city of Aleppo, a group of children take it upon themselves to start painting colors in their city as a game in order to forget their daily struggles and to show some optimism among the hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the city. The film brings the devastating effects of the war and siege to eye-level. The public has probably ceased to be moved by the sight of collapsing buildings and shots of rescue teams pulling out anonymous victims from ruins; there has been an inflation of such reports in the past year. But when the focus shifts to ordinary people and their activities, the view becomes personal. We can see ourselves in these people and a nagging question comes to mind: how would I cope if it were me?
CREDITS
Director:Ali Al Ibrahim
Producer:Ferras Fayyad
Production Company:Aleppo Media Center
Editor: Ali Alibrahim, Feras Fayyad, Amir Mostafa
Cinematographer:Mojahed Abo al Joud, Abo Taim Alhalabi, Khalil Hajar, Mustafa Sarout
Sound:Morten Groth Brandt, Jamie Louis Thurman