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Aydil ( Syria 2011 )

Color: Documentary, color,47’

Direction: Ziad Kalthoum

Screenplay: Ziad Kalthoum

Director of Photography: Wael Ez Eddine

Sound: Alaa Al Ahmad

Music: Wassim Emam

Editing: Rami Chabta

Cast: Sabah Koubani

Production: Almeza Autostrad

Synopsis

The North, home of wheat and legends; a group of women narrating their stories that are shaped by the pain, sorrow and boldness of their society. These women are distinguished by the way they express their emotions of agony and grief (crying-singing), the way which they inherited from their ancestor’s songs which have become people’s legends that are still sung up to now.

Réalisateur

Ziad Kalthoum was born in Homs, Syria in 1981. He graduated in Cinema. He was an assistant director on several films and many television series and shows. Aydil is his first work as director.