Mona / New Directors/New Films Festival 2023
Mona, a Syrian mother of two children, struggles to protect her daughters from tradition and old-fashioned social issues in Belgium.
Director: Abdulrahman Alshowaiki
Producers: Minne Coudenys & Emma Keymeulen
Cast: Zina Alhalak, Yasser Dahhan, Mira Durgham & May Abdulkader
Hashem Sadaki
1st AD: Glenn Scott Peij
DOP: Siebe Dirckx
1st AC: Stef Vanpeteghem
2nd AC: Jos Kemme
Gaffer: Leon De Blaes
Electro/Script: Samah Saadi
Script supervisor: Fairooz Aqeedi
Sound engineer: Quentin Paschal
Boom operator: Tist Mortelmans & Robin Cuchet
Music: Maxim Helincks
Art direction: Kobe Aerts
Make up artist: Nina Vial
Photographer: Ismael Ahmadoun
Extra: Ahmed Fawal & Marie Morsomme
Editing: Abdulrahman Alshowaiki & Siebe Dirckx
Sound mixer: Quentin Paschal
Colorist: Tom Mulder
Production: LUCA school of art/ Campus Sint-Lukas Brussel
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11m — 1 text track
Mona / New Directors/ New Films Festival 2023
11m — 1 text track
Mona, a Syrian mother of two children, struggles to protect her daughters from tradition and old-fashioned social issues in Belgium.
Director: Abdulrahman Alshowaiki
Producers: Minne Coudenys & Emma Keymeulen
Cast: Zina Alhalak, Yasser Dahhan, Mira Durgham & May Abdulkader
Hashem Sadaki
1st AD: ...
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Mona / New Directors/New Films Festival 2023
1 video
Mona, a Syrian mother of two children, struggles to protect her daughters from tradition and old-fashioned social issues in Belgium.
Director: Abdulrahman Alshowaiki
Producers: Minne Coudenys & Emma Keymeulen
Cast: Zina Alhalak, Yasser Dahhan, Mira Durgham & May Abdulkader
Hashem Sadaki
1st AD: ... -
It’s only three nails!! Saturn devouring his son
1 video
Exploring the mechanism by which a man is transformed into a nail which has specific tasks, this short suggests that the contemporary Syrian is doomed by everlasting regulations that intersect with the values of social equity, injustice and tyranny.
Director, writer & producer: Ahmad ALHAJ
Cast:... -
LOCUS CORDIS / Visions du réel 2023
1 video
Conquered by Israel in 1967, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it, which families “cross” by shouting to their loved ones. From his European exile, anxiety-ridden Alhasan Yousef attempts to break free from his inner isolation with this exploration of the power of sound, in an...
