A Plate of Sardines explained

A Plate of Sardines
طبق السردين أو المرّة الأولى التي سمعت فيها بإسرائيل
Director:Omar Amiralay
Producer:ARTE France - Grains de Sable
Narrator:Omar Amiralay
Cinematography:Etienne De Grammont
Editing:Domminique Pâris
Distributor:Grains de Sable
Runtime:17 minutes
Country:France
Language:Arabic, French and English subtitles

A Plate of Sardines (Arabic: طبق السردين) is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay.[1] In it, Amiralay tells the story of how he first heard of Israel. In the documentary, he controversially criticized the Israeli and Syrian governments, the latter of which banned the film.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cinéma du réel - A Dish of Sardines (Tabaq al Sardine) . 2009-02-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070808070606/http://www.cinereel.org/article401.html . 2007-08-08 .
  2. Van de Peer, Stefanie, 'Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria', Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (Edinburgh, 2017; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696062.003.0008, accessed 24 June 2024.