This first film of Soudade Kaadan, a Paris-born Syrian woman won the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for a debut film in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section, a suitable prize after seven years of struggling to make the film where it finally took part in 2017 in the Venice Gap-Financing Market and raising financial support from every conceivable film fund all the way from the large French Cnc to Hubert Bals Fund, World Cinema Fund, Women Make Movies, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (Fr), Doha Film Institute (Qa), Hbf+Europe Minority Fund, Arab Human Rights Fund, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Prince Claus Grant, Sanad, Asian Cinema Fund and Cinereach.
After a number of documentaries about refugees, Soudade Kaadan made the transition to fiction with this compelling narrative. Her documentary background is clearly visible in the natural game, the handheld camera work and the hyperrealism of Sana’s panic journey,...
After a number of documentaries about refugees, Soudade Kaadan made the transition to fiction with this compelling narrative. Her documentary background is clearly visible in the natural game, the handheld camera work and the hyperrealism of Sana’s panic journey,...
- 12/28/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
El Gouna Film Festival ‘18: Women in War and Peace: ‘The Day I Lost My Shadow’, ‘Divine Wind’, ‘The…
El Gouna Film Festival ‘18: Women in War and Peace: ‘The Day I Lost My Shadow’, ‘Divine Wind’, ‘The Heiresses’Apropos of the world today, genders divide the subjects of films here in the Arab world. As the three previous films were about men to the almost complete exclusion of women’s presence, the following films are about women, but in only one — the Latin American one — are men totally absent.
The Arab premiere of the Syrian film The Day I Lost My Shadow by Soudode Kaadan presents tragic aspects of a woman in the early days of the war in Syria, as she leaves Damascus and her eight-year-old son to go in search of a place to buy a cooking gas cylinder. Fearing arrest, her taxi driver abandons her in a small town. There, Sana discovers that it is normal for people to lose their shadows as they lose...
The Arab premiere of the Syrian film The Day I Lost My Shadow by Soudode Kaadan presents tragic aspects of a woman in the early days of the war in Syria, as she leaves Damascus and her eight-year-old son to go in search of a place to buy a cooking gas cylinder. Fearing arrest, her taxi driver abandons her in a small town. There, Sana discovers that it is normal for people to lose their shadows as they lose...
- 9/28/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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