
Black
Stones
Montage, Avid
Regie Usama Ghanoum, Produktion
doxbox Diana El Jeiroudi und Usama Ghanoum, 48 Minuten, Syrien,
Deutschland 2017
For two years, two hospital workers in Homs documented life during
the siege of the Syrian city. As freedom fighters clash with Assad's
troops, 7,000 residents are trapped in the middle until they are
finally allowed to leave in 2014. Two thousand don't make it out.
We see people hiding and running between buildingswalking
can be fatal in a city filled with sharpshooters. With the regime's
soldiers attacking daily, bullets and bombs continue to flatten
the city. But even under these extraordinary circumstances, life
goes on between the rubble and dust: there's still joking around,
gardening, playing in the snow, watching soccer or just having a
laugh. And get ready for some real gallows humor in the Homs promotional
video the cameramen decide to shoot, which praises the ruined city
as a fine vacation destination. (idfa)
Welturaufführung am 17. November 2017
in Amsterdam
IDFA Competition for Midlength Documentary und
Shifting Perspectives: The Arab World
https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/c5217ff6-d16d-4c55-99ea-df337c7c4522/black-stones
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/221601505
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The film takes place in the
sieged neighborhoods of the Syrian city of Homs, in the period between
early 2012 and late 2013. The film focuses specifically on the field
hospital. Within the film we see several facets of the day to day
life, including, the daily movements and commutes of people amid
the on going bombardmen
ts, and how the injured are
being treated in the field hospita
l. The film also shows us the
other side of the daily life, the smiles and the jokes and how people
normalized the everyday bombings.
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