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The kingdom of ants


The kingdom of ants

Chawki Mejri - Tunisia- Syria-Egypt


Synopsis

Palestine today... Three generations of Palestinians are fighting for their survival and the survival of their dreams, in their own way. Adults, a generation of resistance in all its forms. They struggles to live, to love, to preserve the identity and land. The children of the Intifada whose childhood was stolen. A voyage between the surface and the subsurface of the earth between the Apocalypse and serenity, between the violent reality and the compensator dream, between history and myth...



Film details

Type : Fiction
Duration : 120 min
Year of production : 2012
Country : Tunisia- Syria-Egypt
Screenwriter : Khaled Tarifi et Chawki Mejri
Cinematography : Zbigniew Rybczynski
Editor : Khaled Helmi
Director : Chawki Mejri
Production company : Rives Productions/ Ebla International - Cinema and TV Production/United Artistic Group





Chawki Mejri

Born in 1961 in Tunis. He graduated from the School of Cinema and Theater in Lodz, Poland in 1994. He is the author of several short films and documentaries.he has directed more than a dozen of arab TV series.