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Filming began in 1980,<ref name=cooke116>Cooke, 2007, p. 116.</ref> and the first stage was completed in September 1981.<ref name=cooke117/> The film was shot between the [[Shatila refugee camp|Sabra, Shatila]], [[Bourj el-Barajneh]], [[Ain al-Hilweh]] and [[Rashidieh]] refugee camps. During filming Malas lived in the camps and conducted interviews with more than 400 people.<ref name=cooke116/> However, the [[Sabra and Shatila massacre|Sabra and Shatila massacre]] of 1982, which claimed the lives of several people he interviewed, shocked Malas and he stopped working on the project. "I was paralyzed with grief and anxiety for the friends I had made. I had to do something else and so I turned my attention to ''[[Ahlam al-Madina|City Dreams]]''," Malas reportedly said of the event.<ref name=cooke117>Cooke, 2007, p. 117.</ref> The critical success of his feature film, ''Ahlam al-Madina'' ("Dreams of a City"), allowed him to return to the project after five years.<ref name=Ginsberg>Ginsberg; Lippard, 2010, p. 264.</ref> |
Filming began in 1980,<ref name=cooke116>Cooke, 2007, p. 116.</ref> and the first stage was completed in September 1981.<ref name=cooke117/> The film was shot between the [[Shatila refugee camp|Sabra, Shatila]], [[Bourj el-Barajneh]], [[Ain al-Hilweh]] and [[Rashidieh]] refugee camps. During filming Malas lived in the camps and conducted interviews with more than 400 people.<ref name=cooke116/> However, the [[Sabra and Shatila massacre|Sabra and Shatila massacre]] of 1982, which claimed the lives of several people he interviewed, shocked Malas and he stopped working on the project. "I was paralyzed with grief and anxiety for the friends I had made. I had to do something else and so I turned my attention to ''[[Ahlam al-Madina|City Dreams]]''," Malas reportedly said of the event.<ref name=cooke117>Cooke, 2007, p. 117.</ref> The critical success of his feature film, ''Ahlam al-Madina'' ("Dreams of a City"), allowed him to return to the project after five years.<ref name=Ginsberg>Ginsberg; Lippard, 2010, p. 264.</ref> |
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The film was eventually released in 1987<ref name=cooke117/> to great acclaim both in the Arab world and Europe where it was shown on television in France and England. Before its official screening, the film was smuggled to the refugee camps under siege and shown there first.<ref name=Porteous>{{cite JSTOR|521687}}</ref> ''Al-Manam'' won first prize at the 1987 [[Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels|Cannes International Audio Visual Festival]] (FIPA) but was not widely distributed.<ref name=cooke117/> |
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In 1988, Malas published a subsequent book about the interviews and the film under the title, ''[[The Dream: Diary of a Film]]'' ({{lang-ar|المنام: مفكرات فلم}}).<ref name=Porteous/> |
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Revision as of 16:07, 26 November 2012
| Al-Manam المنام | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mohammad Malas |
| Produced by | Maram Cinema |
| Cinematography | Hazem Baya‘a |
Release date | 1987 |
Running time | 45 minutes |
| Country | Syria |
| Language | Arabic |
Al-Manam (Arabic: المنام; "The Dream") is a 1987 Syrian documentary film by the director Mohammad Malas. The film is composed of a collection of interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon during the civil war. The refugees were interviewed by Malas about what dreams they saw when they went to sleep. The film was shot between 1980–81 before the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre. It was only released in 1987.
Synopsis
The film was composed of several interviews with different Palestinian refugees including children, women, old people, and militants from the refugee camps in Lebanon.[1] In the interviews Malas questions his subjects about their dreams at night. Their unique answers provide a window into the subconscious of the Palestinian refugee.[2] The dreams converge on Palestine; where a woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai tells of his dreams about bombardment and martyrdom, and one man recounts a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs.[3] According to Rebecca Porteous, the film constructs "the psychology of dispossession; the daily reality behind those slogans of nationhood, freedom, land and resistance, for people who have lost all of these things, except their recourse to the last."[3]
Production
Filming began in 1980,[3] and the first stage was completed in September 1981.[4] The film was shot between the Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh and Rashidieh refugee camps. During filming Malas lived in the camps and conducted interviews with more than 400 people.[3] However, the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982, which claimed the lives of several people he interviewed, shocked Malas and he stopped working on the project. "I was paralyzed with grief and anxiety for the friends I had made. I had to do something else and so I turned my attention to City Dreams," Malas reportedly said of the event.[4] The critical success of his feature film, Ahlam al-Madina ("Dreams of a City"), allowed him to return to the project after five years.[5]
Release and reception
The film was eventually released in 1987[4] to great acclaim both in the Arab world and Europe where it was shown on television in France and England. Before its official screening, the film was smuggled to the refugee camps under siege and shown there first.[6] Al-Manam won first prize at the 1987 Cannes International Audio Visual Festival (FIPA) but was not widely distributed.[4]
In 1988, Malas published a subsequent book about the interviews and the film under the title, The Dream: Diary of a Film (Arabic: المنام: مفكرات فلم).[6]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ "ArteEast – The Road to Damascus – The Dream". ArteEast. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^ Deely, Mona (2010). "Retrospective on Film: The Spread of Film Production in the 70s and 80s". Zenith Magazine. Zenith Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d Cooke, 2007, p. 116.
- ^ a b c d Cooke, 2007, p. 117.
- ^ Ginsberg; Lippard, 2010, p. 264.
- ^ a b Template:Cite JSTOR
Bibliography
- Ginsberg, Terri; Lippard, Chris (2010). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810860902.
- Cooke, Miriam (2007). Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822340164.