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The Gulf War, What Next? [Harb Al-Khalidj Wa Ba'd]

Catalogue Code

FILM000067

Synopsis

In the early 1990s, five leading Arab film directors were asked to create a short work that expressed their thoughts and feelings about the first Gulf War and its impact on Arab people, culture and intellectual thought. The Gulf War, What Next? is the revealing and rewarding feature-length collection of these five impressive short works.

Borhane Alaoui's Black Night Eclipse follows a Lebanese filmmaker (living in Paris) as he grapples with what thematic approach to take in making a film about the war.

Nouri Bouzid's It Is Sherherazade They're Killing is about an Arab family gathering in Tunis during Ramadan, torn apart over dissension about the heroes and victims of the war.

Mustapha Darkaoui's The Silence follows a film and theater production group as they are increasingly distracted from their current project by the desire to revisit Iraq and film the changes wrought in the decade since their last trip.

Nejia Ben Mabrouk's Research of Shaima follows the filmmaker as she travels to Baghdad in search of a girl whose face she has seen on television, only to find the inevitable personal tragedy caused by the destruction of war.

In Homage by Assassination from director Elia Suleiman (Divine Intervention), we find a Palestinian screenwriter in New York City who becomes increasingly distraught over news of the Gulf War as he struggles to finish a script.

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Year of Release

1991

Running Time

109 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genre

Drama

Language

Arabic

Countries of Origin

Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000067

Notes

A collection of short works by Borphane Alaouié, Elia Suleiman, Nouri Bouzid, Mustapha Darkaoui and Nejia Ben Mabrouk

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DVD ARA/FIL/0102 Subtitles: English

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Projects

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Double Helix history

Wars of Position

My Country, A Journey

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

Discover more

The Gulf War, What Next? [Harb Al-Khalidj Wa Ba'd]

People with a connection to this film

Copies in the collection

Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database