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Cast

Farah Barqawi

Farah Barqawi

Aylin Çankaya

Aylin Çankaya

Walid

Walid

Saeed al-Wakeel

Saeed al-Wakeel

Matthieu Rey

Matthieu Rey

Osama al-Hossein

Osama al-Hossein

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Nadah El Shazly

Nadah El Shazly

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Philip Rizk

Philip Rizk

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Philip Rizk

Philip Rizk

Director

Philip Rizk

Philip Rizk

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Max Schneider

Max Schneider

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Mapping Lessons

20208.0 / 1061 min
Documentary

Overview

Through the diary entries of the film's main protagonist K., we learn about her return from post-revolutionary Russia to her home in Greater Syria, in which, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, individual communities are trying to find a way to autonomy. Thanks to the juxtaposition with the Russian past, presented through shots from Soviet film classics such as Esfir Shub's Spain or Kinoglaz by Dziga Vertov, and the Syrian present, portrayed through various mobile phone footage, the director draws parallels between two incompatible realities and creates a multimedia essay on neo-colonialism and independence.