Ouroboros

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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.

Country:

Belgium,

France,

Palestinian Territory,

Qatar

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

74 minutes

Year:

2017

Director:

Basma Alsharif

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Company:

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture,

Idioms Film,

International Digital Artist (IDA),

Momento Film

Cast:
Neemah Abu Ghenas

Jessica Bellinger

Coleman Collins

Bo Gallerito

Yann Gourdon

Crew:
Basma Alsharif

Director

Émilie Dudognon

Co-Producer

Mohanad Yaqubi

Producer

Eyal Sivan

Co-Producer

Basma Alsharif

Writer