Opening Dialogue Actor
Some time after a mysterious weather event caused a cloud of sand from a faraway desert to settle over an unnamed city, this miasma of dust shows no sign of lifting. Clogging up the eyes and choking off the horizon, it has become a fact of everyday life. In a nondescript apartment somewhere in the city, a woman convenes a gathering at which a group of young people are present. Like every young generation, they are a repository of hope for the future – albeit a future that seems equally murky and obscured.
Editor
Some time after a mysterious weather event caused a cloud of sand from a faraway desert to settle over an unnamed city, this miasma of dust shows no sign of lifting. Clogging up the eyes and choking off the horizon, it has become a fact of everyday life. In a nondescript apartment somewhere in the city, a woman convenes a gathering at which a group of young people are present. Like every young generation, they are a repository of hope for the future – albeit a future that seems equally murky and obscured.
Director
Some time after a mysterious weather event caused a cloud of sand from a faraway desert to settle over an unnamed city, this miasma of dust shows no sign of lifting. Clogging up the eyes and choking off the horizon, it has become a fact of everyday life. In a nondescript apartment somewhere in the city, a woman convenes a gathering at which a group of young people are present. Like every young generation, they are a repository of hope for the future – albeit a future that seems equally murky and obscured.
Director
Em um momento em que o ISIS estava tomando a cidade de Mosul em junho de 2014, Reman se viu segurando um celular com câmera BlackBerry diante do caos. Sem nenhuma experiência anterior de cinema, sua filmagem pixelizada documenta os primeiros dias da ocupação e reflete algo da urgência de um amor recém-descoberto pelo cinema. Incapaz de contar com as narrativas públicas confusas, ela opta por narrar e dar sentido aos eventos políticos por meio das memórias de sua mãe sobre a cidade, e as notas diárias de voz do Whatsapp que seus primos enviam de Mosul. Ela logo percebe que não consegue acompanhar a realidade esmagadora ao seu redor e se pega recitando as linhas "Eu não ouço o que ouço" para silenciar os sons de uma cidade moribunda.
