الليل
THE NIGHT (1992)
THE NIGHT (1992)
The Night is a tapestry of lament woven with the fragments of memory. The colours of nostalgia are muted by a figurative darkness looming in the atmosphere of Al Quneitra. The echoes of the Zionist occupation in Palestine and Syria reverberate, but resistance to it is calling at every turn in these monumental years: 1936, 1946, 1948, and 1967. In spite of the long night, the innocence of childhood and the sweetness of memory itself grounds us, and reminds us why we are fighting in the first place. The city of Al-Quneitra in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights sits at the intersection of the struggle for Palestine and Syria’s independence. The word “Al Quneitra” itself means the “little bridge”. Literally, Al-Quneitra is a bridge between Palestine, a nation stolen, and Syria, a nation born. Metaphorically, it’s a bridge between despair and hope, a link between a past memory and a future dream. — IBRAHIM ISSA
Country of Origin: Syria
Run Time: 1h 56m
Language: Arabic
Rank in the list: 25th
Genre(s): Drama History War
Synopsis
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man’s history by mixing echoes of his mother’s memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city’s destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
Notable Cast and Crew
Mohamed Malas
Director
Sabah Al Jazaery
Cast (Mother)
Fares Helou
Cast (Alalla)
Hazar Awad
Cast
