
Ouroboros
This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.
Ouroboros
April 29, 2017
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Cast (15)

Coleman Collins
N/A

Bo Gallerito
N/A

Yann Gourdon
N/A

Joseph Valdez
N/A

Sky Hopinka
Voiceover

Sama Shanaa
N/A

Omar Taweel
N/A

Lamar Taweel
N/A

Adnan Badran
N/A

Bahaa Badran
N/A

Diego Marcon
N/A
Crew (26)
Directing

Basma Alsharif
Director
Writing

Basma Alsharif
Writer
Production

Yaser Murtaja
Line Producer

Eyal Sivan
Co-Producer

Mona Varichon
Associate Producer

Mohanad Yaqubi
Producer

Sami Said
Line Producer

Nour Mobarak
Associate Producer

Émilie Dudognon
Co-Producer

Ella Anderson
Associate Producer

Hortense Quitard
Production Manager
Sound

Matthieu Deniau
Sound Mixer

Bunny People
Original Music Composer

Mohanad Yaqubi
Sound Recordist

Nabil Al-Hadhoud
Sound Recordist

Yann Gourdon
Original Music Composer

Federico Chiari
Sound Recordist
Art

Alaa El-Baba
Art Direction
Camera

Misheal Qahwasmeh
Camera Operator

Yaser Murtaja
Camera Operator

Motasem Murtaja
Camera Operator

Alee Peoples
Still Photographer
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew

Ben Russell
Cinematography

Jean-Philippe Laroche
Post-Production Manager
Editing

Basma Alsharif
Editor

Benoit Delval
Color Timer