film screening
Plate of Sardines, 1997/There Are So Many Things Still To Say …, 1997
by Omar Amiralay

Tuesday 15 January 2008

"Plate of Sardines or The First Time I Heard of Israel (Tabaq el-Sardin)"1997 | 17 min

«The first time I heard of Israel, I was in Beirut, the conversation was about a plate of sardines. I was six years old, Israel was two.» In the company of filmmaker Mohammad Malas, Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed village of Quneytra.

"There Are So Many Things Still To Say… (Hunalika Ashiya’ Kathira Kana Yumken an Yatahadath ‘Anha al-Mare’…)"1997 | 50 min

A few months before the passing of his friend and close collaborator dramaturge Sa‘adallah Wannus, Amiralay listens to his friend's somber and relentless words, a farewell to a generation for whom the Arab-Israeli conflict has been the source of all disillusion.