Ouroboros

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 29, 2017

Original language

Arabic

Spoken languages

Arabic, English, Italian

Countries

Belgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Qatar

Production

International Digital Artist (IDA),Momento Film,Arab Fund for Arts and Culture,Idioms Film

Cast

Yann Gourdon,Bahaa Badran,Jessica Bellinger,Bo Gallerito,Diego Marcon,Lauren Strom-Berg,Sama Shanaa,Claire de Pimodan,Coleman Collins,Sky Hopinkaand 5 more

Director

Basma Alsharif

Writer

Basma Alsharif

Producer

Mohanad Yaqubi

Music

Bunny People,Yann Gourdon

Budget

$232,000

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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