Dreams of the City
Dreams of the City or Ahlam al-Madina (Arabic: أحلام المدينة, lit. 'Dreams of the City') is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. It is a coming-of-age story of a boy forced to flee his native Quneitra to Damascus in the turbulent 1950s.[1]
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| Directed by | Mohamed Malas |
| Written by | Mohamed Malas Samir Zikra |
| Produced by | General Organization for Cinema |
| Starring | Rafiq Sbei'i Hicham Khchefati Yasmine Khlat Bassel Abyad Ayman Zeidan |
| Cinematography | Ordijan Anjin |
| Edited by | Haitham Kuwwatli |
| Distributed by | General Organization for Cinema |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Syria |
| Language | Arabic |
Plot
The story is an autobiography of Dib, the main character in the film. Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage. This is partly an aubiography of Malas himself. It is set against the backdrop of the major political events of the 1950s in Syria and Egypt: the end of the dictatorship in Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and the short-lived The United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt in 1958.[1][2]
Awards
- Carthage Film Festival- Tanit d'Or, 1985.
- Berlin International Film Festival - Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention, 1985.
- Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema - Golden Palm, 1985.
References
- Alkassim, Samirah (2018). The Cinema of Muhammad Malas : Visions of a Syrian Auteur. Nezar Andary. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-3-319-76813-7. OCLC 1043658062.
- "Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina". mecfilm. Retrieved 18 February 2019.