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Ouroboros

Ouroboros

Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.

5.02017Documentary

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.

Release2017-04-29
Runtime74 min
StatusReleased
CountriesBelgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Qatar
Original languageAR
SpokenArabic, English, Italian
DirectorBasma Alsharif
WritersBasma Alsharif
ProductionArab Fund for Arts and Culture, Idioms Film, International Digital Artist (IDA), Momento Film
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Popularity1
TMDB ID465383

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