Dreams of the City explained

Dreams of the City
(Ahlam al-Madina)
أحلام المدينة
Director:Mohamed Malas
Producer:General Organization for Cinema
Starring:Rafiq Sbei'i
Hicham Khchefati
Yasmine Khlat
Bassel Abyad
Ayman Zeidan
Cinematography:Ordijan Anjin
Editing:Haitham Kuwwatli
Distributor:General Organization for Cinema
Runtime:120 minutes
Country:Syria
Language:Arabic

Dreams of the City or Ahlam al-Madina (Arabic: أحلام المدينة|lit=Dreams of the City) is a Syrian feature drama film by director Mohamed Malas. It is a coming-of-age story of a boy forced to flee his native Quneitra to Damascus in the turbulent 1950s.[1]

Plot

The story is an autobiography of Dib, the main character in the film. Dib was brought up by a brutal father-in-law and a mother who was forced into a new marriage. This is partly an autobiography of Malas himself. It is set against the backdrop of the major political events of the 1950s in Syria and Egypt: the end of the dictatorship in Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser's ascent to power and the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, and the short-lived The United Arab Republic between Syria and Egypt in 1958.[2]

Awards

References

  1. Book: Alkassim, Samirah . The Cinema of Muhammad Malas : Visions of a Syrian Auteur. . 2018 . Palgrave Macmillan UK . Nezar Andary . 978-3-319-76813-7 . Cham . 1043658062.
  2. Web site: Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina. mecfilm. 18 February 2019.