For around thirty years, no commercial film had been released in Yemen.
In 2018, projected with the means at hand, on wooden screens painted white in wedding rooms specially rented for the occasion,
Ten Days Before the Wedding
had enjoyed real success in Aden, where it remained on show. displayed for eight months.
The film, nominated for an Oscar, even represented Yemen in Hollywood.
Its director, Amr Gamal, is one of the rare Yemeni filmmakers in this country ravaged by a conflict between Houthi rebels and the government supported by Saudi Arabia.
His testimony is all the more precious.
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He returns with
Les Lueurs d'Aden
, a feature film inspired by a true story and almost filmed like a documentary on the daily life of a middle-class family fighting against precariousness, in the city marked by the consequences of civil war, between military controls, power cuts, water rationing.
October 2019. In a…
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