Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 78'
The Syrian spring is a chapter that has yet to be closed and is hard to penetrate completely. The civilians have great hope that Assad’s family will step aside, but their fear is just as great that this won’t happen before the population has been reduced to complete desperation. In the meantime, over twenty thousand civilians have fled to Turkey, while the rebels try to organize themselves through the network and more and more soldiers and officials in command defect to the rebel side.
Biography
film director
Antonio Martino
Antonio Martino (Crotone, Italy, 1977) graduated in 2004 from DAMS and has made various documentaries, such as a trilogy about the East which includes Noi siamo l’aria non la terra; Gara de Nord_Ragazzi di strada (2006), winner of the 2007 Ilaria Alpi prize; and Pancevo_Città morta (2007), which received a special mention in the Italian documentary competition of CinemAmbiente. In 2009, he also presented Be Water, My Friend at CinemAmbiente.
FILMOGRAFIA
Siamo fatti così (coregia/codirectors Danilo Monte, Cristiano Zuccotti, Elisabeth Armand, Abi, Valeria Correale, Giuditta Picchi, mm, doc., 2004), Noi siamo l’aria non la terra (cm, doc., 2005), Gara de Nord_Copii Pe Strada (Gara de Nord_Ragazzi di strada, cm, doc., 2006), Pančevo_Mrtav Grad (Pancevo_Città Morta, mm, doc., 2007), Nìguri (mm, doc., 2009), Be Water, My Friend (cm, doc., 2009), Macauba. Appunti di lotte e di energia (cm, doc., 2011), Isqat al Nizam (At the Regime Border, doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“I wanted to take a deep view of democracy with this film. Through the lens of video activists whose cameras witnessed thousand of people killed during the brutal Syrian Goverment repression from one side, and through the hope of young revolutionaries who experienced nothing but the Assad regime from the other. My own point of view merges together with the extraordinary mixture of images coming from various devices, turning this film into a participatory project.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, fotografia/director, story, cinematography
Antonio Martino
montaggio/film editing
Giuseppe Trepiccione, Simone Incerti Zambelli
musica/music Mario Romanazzi, Valerio Pellegri, Vincenzo Scorza
suono/sound Diego Schiavo
interpreti/cast Hamzeh Ghadban, Nazeer el-Abdo, Jamil Saaib, Hussain Malosh, Rami Hadle, Nabil Alsaed, Mohamed Ibrahim Issa, Ahmad Mukbat, Mohymen al-Taie, Riyad Musa Ass’ad
produttori/producers Roberto Ruini, Gloria Giorgianni
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Pulsemedia
musica/music Mario Romanazzi, Valerio Pellegri, Vincenzo Scorza
suono/sound Diego Schiavo
interpreti/cast Hamzeh Ghadban, Nazeer el-Abdo, Jamil Saaib, Hussain Malosh, Rami Hadle, Nabil Alsaed, Mohamed Ibrahim Issa, Ahmad Mukbat, Mohymen al-Taie, Riyad Musa Ass’ad
produttori/producers Roberto Ruini, Gloria Giorgianni
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Pulsemedia
