Director
Philippe Van Leeuw
Starring
Hiam Abbass, Diamand Abou Abboud, Juliette Navis
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Certificate
15
Run Time
85 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
Belgium
Language
Arabic
Director of Photography: Virginie Surdej
Editor: Gladys Joujou
Produced by: Guillaume Malandrin, Serge Zeitoun
Music: Jean-Luc FAFCHAMPS
Screenplay by: Philippe Van Leeu
Insyriated
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
About as relevant and urgent as it’s possible to get, Philippe Van Leeuw’s claustrophobic and powerful film throws us amongst a middle-class family, barricaded inside their flat in the middle of the city. Whilst in the distance, war rages, nearby snipers lie in wait, and opportunistic men stalk the streets. As what’s going on outside makes its way inside, formidable matriarch Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) is the one charged with making the sorts of decisions no-one should ever have to make...