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Outside the alphabet ( Syria 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 28’

Direction: Rula Kayal

Screenplay: Rula Kayal

Director of Photography: Hussam Chahin

Sound: Muhab Ezz

Music: Fadl Sleiman

Editing: Ahmad Jaber

Cast: Nawar Bolbol - Amira Hdifi- Ramez Atallah

Synopsis

Fares and Muhannad are two seven years old boys, living in a small forgotten village. Fares is poor, somehow unusual in what he does. Muhannad is rich, always in the pursuit of excellence and strives to be like his his friend Fares. The two friends are very intertwined.

Réalisateur

ROULA ALKAYAL is a Film critic ,Director and script writer of the short film “Unlisted” from a short story by Youssef Idriss, funded by Geneva Institute for Human Rights. He was also an Assistant Professor at The Academy of Cinema Arts and Technology in Cairo – Egypt, 2006 – 2008.