Country: Siria, Lebanon
Year: 2016
Duration: 90'
The film portrays the changes in the life of an Armenian family on Aleppo’s frontline in Al Midan, an area that gave shelter to the persecuted Armenians one hundred years ago and today to many displaced Syrians. From the balcony of his home, the director films with a small camera the changes in his neighbourhood and his own family, interweaving his images with extracts from classical films to illustrate the parallels between the Armenian genocide and Syrians’ reality today. [cg]
Biography
film director
Avo Kaprealian
Avo Kaprealian (Aleppo, Syria, 1986) is from a Syrian-Armenian family. He left his hometown to study theater at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, where he graduated in 2011. He took part in several film workshops organized by DocMed, Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts and Screen Beirut and dedicated to the development of film ideas. Before directing in 2016 his feature documentary Houses Without Doors, which he filmed entirely by himself and that is his first feature-length film, he has directed one short entitled Just Two Steps Too, that was shown at the Yerevan Golden Apricot Film Festival. Houses Without Doors, which premiered at Berlinale Forum, also won Internazionale.Doc section al Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Just Two Steps Too (cm, doc., 2012), Manazil bela abwab (Houses Without Doors, doc., 2016), Life = Cinematic Imperfections (2018).
Declaration
film director
“To me, the importance of this film lies in its importance as a document, a true involvement in what I and others lived through, the thesis of the absence of justice for my forefathers who were murdered one hundred years ago, and my fear that this lack of justice will be repeated with the Syrian people. It is a fear of that there is no justice at all. But, as a Syrian director I believe that the revolution, any revolution […] grew and spread to every aspect of life, including the arts. Our films must be revolutionary: radical in what they propose, extreme in their form.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, cinematography
Avo Kaprealian
montaggio/film editing
Raya Yamisha
musica/music
Samer Saem Eldahr (Hello Psychaleppo)
suono/sound
Avo Kaprealian, Raya Yamisha, Raed Younan
produttori/producers
Mohammad Ali Atassi, Christin Luettich
produzione/production
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
contatti/contacts
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
Christin Luettich
leb.coordinator@bidayyat.org
www.bidayyat.org
Avo Kaprealian
montaggio/film editing
Raya Yamisha
musica/music
Samer Saem Eldahr (Hello Psychaleppo)
suono/sound
Avo Kaprealian, Raya Yamisha, Raed Younan
produttori/producers
Mohammad Ali Atassi, Christin Luettich
produzione/production
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
contatti/contacts
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
Christin Luettich
leb.coordinator@bidayyat.org
www.bidayyat.org
