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Mapping Lessons

Oct 30, 2020 · 1h 1m
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Documentary

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Through the diary entries of the film's main protagonist K., we learn about her return from post-revolutionary Russia to her home in Greater Syria, in which, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, individual communities are trying to find a way to autonomy. Thanks to the juxtaposition with the Russian past, presented through shots from Soviet film classics such as Esfir Shub's Spain or Kinoglaz by Dziga Vertov, and the Syrian present, portrayed through various mobile phone footage, the director draws parallels between two incompatible realities and creates a multimedia essay on neo-colonialism and independence.

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Farah Barqawi
Aylin Çankaya
Walid
Saeed al-Wakeel
Matthieu Rey
Osama al-Hossein
Directed by Philip Rizk

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EN
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FILIFILFILM
Country
US
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