Feras Fayyads: The Cave

 

Jeg glæder mig rigtig meget til at se Fayyads film, som er hans anden om civiles humanitære arbejde under krigen i Syrien. Den får premiere under filmfestvalen i Toronto nu i begyndelsen af september. DFI nyheder skrev for nylig om filmen:

” Feras Fayyads ‘The Cave’ tager publikum med til den østlige del af Ghouta, en forstad til den syriske hovedstad Damaskus. Her, i underjordiske huler og gange under krigsmarken, gemmer der sig et hemmeligt hospital. Hospitalet drives af børnelægen Amani og hendes team bestående af læger og sygeplejersker. I det underjordiske mørke genskabes håbet for de tusindvis af børn og voksne, som er ofre for de brutale krigshandlinger.

‘The Cave’ er produceret af Kirstine Barfod og Sigrid Dyekjær for Danish Documentary Production med støtte fra blandt andet Filminstituttet og TV 2 Danmark.”

Jeg glæder mig selvfølgelig til Feras Fayyads nye film på baggrund af hans tidligere Last Men in Aleppo, som imponerede og rørte alle og som vi har fulgt her på Filmkommentaren, siden Sara Thelle dybt anerkendende anmeldte den til seks af seks penne og skrev:

“The tone is set in the opening, this story is of a universal scope. It is a film about life in a world of death and violence, of humanity surviving endless destruction.

Last Men in Aleppo is an homage to the White Helmets (officially the Syria Civil Defence), the civilian volunteer rescue corps that works relentlessly to save the lives of civilians in rebel-held areas of Syria. Filmed over a year, from September 2015 to fall 2016 up until Aleppo fell back in to the hands of Bashar al Assad’s government forces, the film is collaboration between the Syrian director, Feras Fayyad, the Aleppo Media Center, an independent news agency and network of reporters in Aleppo…” Læs hele anmeldelsen her:

http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/3858/ 

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Allan Berg Nielsen
Allan Berg Nielsen

Allan Berg Nielsen started the first documentary cinema in Randers, Denmark way back in the 1970’es. He did so at the museum, where he was employed. He got the (16mm) films from the collection of the National Film Board of Denmark (Statens Filmcentral). He organised a film festival in his home city, became a member of the Board of Directors of the Film Board, started to write about films in diverse magazines, were a juror at several festivals and wrote television critiques in the local newspaper. From 1998-2003 Allan Berg was documentary film consultant (commissioning editor) at The Danish Film Institute, a continuation of the Film Board. Since then free lance consultant in documentary matters.

abn@filmkommentaren.dk

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