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Ouroboros

Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.
Apr 29, 2017 · 1h 14m
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This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.

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CAST

Neemah Abu Ghenas
Jessica Bellinger
Coleman Collins
Bo Gallerito
Yann Gourdon
Claire de Pimodan
Joseph Valdez
Lauren Strom-Berg
Directed by Basma Alsharif

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Status
Released
Original language
AR
Budget
$232,000
Revenue
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Production
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Idioms Film, International Digital Artist (IDA), Momento Film
Country
BE, FR, PS, QA
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