MAESMAK

Directed by Georges Salameh

Iraq, Greece, Mediterranean, war, migration, invasion

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http://vimeo.com/2858362

Genre: Culture, Foreign Worlds, Anthropology, Human Interest, and Essay
Synopsis: Maesmak is Whats your name? in Arabic.
Maesmak is a meditative exploration of one day spent in Rutba in late 2002, to plant an olive tree against the war, just before the invasion of Iraq.
Maesmak is also a metaphor about cancer, a disease consuming one dictatorship, but its main victims are the ones without a name in the books of History.
Stage: finished
Running time: 20 minutes

Release year: 2008
Festivals: screened @34 festivals & 4 exhibitions
Awards: awarded @LUKSUZ (Slovenia) - @CONCAN (Japan) - @TISFF (Iran) - @STRANGE SCREEN (Greece)
Language: arabic - greek - english
Subtitles: english - frensh - italian