Damascus-Sana
Within its plan to go to ambitious youth, the General Film Organization undertakes many cinematic projects, including the Diploma in Film Sciences and Arts, which places the amateur student on the first rungs of the ladder, giving him knowledge and experience through theoretical and practical curves in which students in the second of them complete training films in which they translate their hypotheses and test what Nehlh of science, art and knowledge.
The Sana Youth Bulletin sheds light on three of the films that were filmed as part of this experience, namely Hidden Refuge, Yasmine’s Birthday and Asem on paper, under the supervision of Ayham Arsan and Nael Turkmani.
Diploma student Ruaa Al-Kilani presented the training film A Hidden Refuge, which was written, directed and represented by Rolana Mansour, Natalie Qaqaa, Nebras Qteishat and Yola Dalloul, in which she discussed an internal psychological condition of a girl struggling to know her lost self-identity in the history of memory, explaining that “The idea and scenario of the film was built on the basis of the place where The scenes of the film were filmed internally in Al-Kindi cinema hall, and rehearsals of the actor and the camera movement were worked out before filming, by drawing a full and detailed storyboard for all the shots, which facilitated the implementation process and the status of cooperation between the work team.
While the diploma student, Abdullah Faisal Kiwan, presented a training film entitled Yasmine’s Birthday, script, directed by Abdullah Faisal Kiwan, and represented by Yonan Mahfouz and Yola Dallol, in which he dealt with the story of a thirty-year-old who lives in a cinema and works in it with a loneliness, as he receives a message from an unknown who remembers that today is His birthday is what changes his life for him and turns it upside down.
On his experience in the hypothesis presented by Kiwan, it was useful, which paved the way for us as students in the diploma to go through the experience of management before starting filming our short films, in addition to its importance with self-identification and linking it to the selves of the team as a whole.
Also, diploma student Natalie Qaqaa, the author of a hypothesis named on paper, stated that the hypothesis talks about a person who dies and his name remains only on paper, in addition to that she talks about a group of cases of characters who are exposed to death in different ways, noting that her training film sheds light at the same time on the role of women in society And the sacrifices that she makes for the sake of her children.
Regarding the importance of the training films that they present, Qaqaa emphasized that they sharpen the talents and help the trainees to learn from the mistakes that appear during filming to avoid them in the coming experiences.
The three films are part of the youth cinema support project that the Foundation has been pursuing for eight years, with the aim of making room for amateur youth energies to enter this field and gaining cumulative experience in the cinema sector that would later qualify them to create a new imprint on the walls of the seventh art.
