Nezouh Photo: Nezouh Ltd, BFI & Film4
In director Soudade Kaadan's magical realist Nezouh, photographed by the French cinematographer Hélène Louvart, 14-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein) and her family are the only ones remaining in their besieged hometown of Damascus, Syria.
When a missile damages their home, a rope is mysteriously lowered through the hole in the roof, offering Zeina an escape from the confines of her apartment. Zeina's father Mutaz (Samir Almasri) refuses to leave, fearful of life as a refugee. As the conflict continues to rage, Zeina and Hala (Kinda Alloush), her mother, must decide whether to go against Mutaz's wishes and leave Damascus.
Nezouh Photo: Nezouh Ltd, BFI & Film4
Speaking with Eye For Film, Louvart discussed the director and cinematographer's relationship, and balancing Nezouh's different points of view.
Paul Risker: Looking back on your body of work, how has...
In director Soudade Kaadan's magical realist Nezouh, photographed by the French cinematographer Hélène Louvart, 14-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein) and her family are the only ones remaining in their besieged hometown of Damascus, Syria.
When a missile damages their home, a rope is mysteriously lowered through the hole in the roof, offering Zeina an escape from the confines of her apartment. Zeina's father Mutaz (Samir Almasri) refuses to leave, fearful of life as a refugee. As the conflict continues to rage, Zeina and Hala (Kinda Alloush), her mother, must decide whether to go against Mutaz's wishes and leave Damascus.
Nezouh Photo: Nezouh Ltd, BFI & Film4
Speaking with Eye For Film, Louvart discussed the director and cinematographer's relationship, and balancing Nezouh's different points of view.
Paul Risker: Looking back on your body of work, how has...
- 5/4/2024
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A city under siege in the throes of war becomes the setting for a tale of unexpected liberation in Soudade Kaadan’s humanistic Venice Audience Award winner that signposts its intentions when a character expresses surprise about the notion of “a film in Syria where no one dies”. Kaadan has one eye on a young adult audience, avoiding the out and out horrors of war that Insyriated made of a very similar siege set-up in favour of a magic realist-inflected tale where it is not just teenagers who are gaining their independence.
Young Zeina (Hala Zein) has just hit puberty and her apartment is like any number of suburban homes across the world, with its patterned wallpaper, comfy sofa and mirror on the wall. The only difference is, she and her mum Hala (Kinda Alloush) and dad Motaz (Samer al Masri) are just about the only ones left in their besieged neighbourhood.
Young Zeina (Hala Zein) has just hit puberty and her apartment is like any number of suburban homes across the world, with its patterned wallpaper, comfy sofa and mirror on the wall. The only difference is, she and her mum Hala (Kinda Alloush) and dad Motaz (Samer al Masri) are just about the only ones left in their besieged neighbourhood.
- 4/30/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a sweet-natured and beautifully photographed portrait of a grumpy middle-aged guy, his sceptical wife and their teenage daughter
Here is the second feature from Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan, set in a Damascus suburb during the most brutal shelling of the civil war, among the remaining traumatised residents wondering whether to stay or leave as refugees heading for the Mediterranean. The resonant title means “displacement” and her images of the city, modified with some magic-realist effects, are very striking.
A middle-aged guy, Motaz (Samer al-Masry) is grumpily asserting his authority in front of his increasingly sceptical family: his wife is Hala (Kinda Alloush) and they are parents to teen daughter Zeina (Hala Zein), who is incidentally conspiring with her mother to suppress the news that she has started her period. She also likes a certain boy who keeps coming around – budding film-maker Amer (Nizar Alani...
Here is the second feature from Syrian film-maker Soudade Kaadan, set in a Damascus suburb during the most brutal shelling of the civil war, among the remaining traumatised residents wondering whether to stay or leave as refugees heading for the Mediterranean. The resonant title means “displacement” and her images of the city, modified with some magic-realist effects, are very striking.
A middle-aged guy, Motaz (Samer al-Masry) is grumpily asserting his authority in front of his increasingly sceptical family: his wife is Hala (Kinda Alloush) and they are parents to teen daughter Zeina (Hala Zein), who is incidentally conspiring with her mother to suppress the news that she has started her period. She also likes a certain boy who keeps coming around – budding film-maker Amer (Nizar Alani...
- 4/30/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It is Kaadan’s second feature after The Day I Lost My Shadow, which won Venice’s Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best first film in 2018.
Cairo-based film company Mad Solutions has acquired Middle East and North Africa distribution rights for Syrian director Soudade Kaadan’s upcoming drama Nezouh, set against the backdrop of Syria’s civil conflict.
The film, which is sold internationally by mk2 films, is in post-production and is expected to world premiere at a festival later this year. Mad Solutions has released a first image for the film as it nears completion.
It is Kaadan’s...
Cairo-based film company Mad Solutions has acquired Middle East and North Africa distribution rights for Syrian director Soudade Kaadan’s upcoming drama Nezouh, set against the backdrop of Syria’s civil conflict.
The film, which is sold internationally by mk2 films, is in post-production and is expected to world premiere at a festival later this year. Mad Solutions has released a first image for the film as it nears completion.
It is Kaadan’s...
- 5/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
MK2 Films, the banner behind Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated “The Worst Person in the World,” has boarded “Nezouh,” from Syrian director Soudade Kaadan.
The drama, set against the backdrop of the conflict in Damascus, marks Kaadan’s follow up to her 2018 feature debut, “The Day I Lost My Shadow,” which won the Lion of the Future prize at Venice. Her 2019 short “Aziza,” meanwhile, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Co-financed by BFI, which awarded National Lottery funding, and Film4, “Nezouh” is an allegorical tale of female emancipation.
The movie follows 14-year-old Zeina and her family, whose lives are shaken after a bomb rips a giant hole in the roof of their building, exposing them to the outside world. One day, a young boy living nearby lowers a rope through the opening and Zeina discovers her first taste of freedom. Whilst her father is determined to stay in his home and not become a refugee,...
The drama, set against the backdrop of the conflict in Damascus, marks Kaadan’s follow up to her 2018 feature debut, “The Day I Lost My Shadow,” which won the Lion of the Future prize at Venice. Her 2019 short “Aziza,” meanwhile, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Co-financed by BFI, which awarded National Lottery funding, and Film4, “Nezouh” is an allegorical tale of female emancipation.
The movie follows 14-year-old Zeina and her family, whose lives are shaken after a bomb rips a giant hole in the roof of their building, exposing them to the outside world. One day, a young boy living nearby lowers a rope through the opening and Zeina discovers her first taste of freedom. Whilst her father is determined to stay in his home and not become a refugee,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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