Dalsgaard og Zytoon: The War Show 3/

Freja Dam har på NYHEDER FRA DFI i dag en lang og omhyggelig artikel som bygger på et interview med Andreas Dalsgaard om Obaidah Zytoons og hans film The War Show:

“For radioværten Obaidah Zytoon og hendes venner i Damaskus’ kunstnermiljø starter den syriske opstand med eufori og drømme om et demokratisk Syrien – også selv om de ved, at vejen bliver lang og hård. Men snart udvikler kampen sig til kaos, tragedie og desillusion. Flere af hendes venner bliver arresteret og slået ihjel, og efter tre år på farten med sit evigt registrerende kamera flygter Zytoon til Tyrkiet med 300 timers optagelser som sin dyrebareste last… ” Læs hele artiklen her, den kan meget anbefales: www.dfi.dk/Nyheder/FILMupdate/2016

The War Show er produceret af Miriam Nørgaard og Alaa Hassan for Fridthjof Film i samarbejde med Dharmafilm og koproduceret med finske Oktober Oy.

Filmen får premiere som åbningsfilm på Venedig Filmfestivalens auteur-drevne sideprogram Venice Days (31. august – 10. september) og er med på Toronto Filmfestivalen (8.-18. september).

SYNOPSIS

In March 2011, radio host Obaidah Zytoon and friends join the street protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Knowing the Arab Spring will forever change their country, this group of artists and activists begin filming their lives and the events around them. But as the regime’s violent response spirals the country into a bloody civil war, their hopes for a better future will be tested by violence, imprisonment and death. A deeply personal road movie, The War Show captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends. (Venice Days programme)

http://www.venice-days.com/film.asp?id=9&id_dettaglio=712&lang=eng

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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