Dreams of the City

1984 Syrian film
  • 1984 (1984)
Running time
120 minutesCountrySyriaLanguageArabic

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.[1][2]

Awards

  • Carthage Film Festival- Tanit d'Or, 1985.
  • Berlin International Film Festival - Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention, 1985.
  • Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema - Golden Palm, 1985.

References

  1. ^ a b Alkassim, Samirah (2018). The Cinema of Muhammad Malas : Visions of a Syrian Auteur. Nezar Andary. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-3-319-76813-7. OCLC 1043658062.
  2. ^ "Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina". mecfilm. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  • Ahlam al-Madina at IMDb
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Films directed by Mohammad Malas
  • A Dream of a Small City (1970)
  • Quneitra 74 (1974)
  • The Memory (1997)
  • Dreams of the City (1983)
  • The Dream (1987)
  • Light and Shadows (1990)
  • The Night (1992)
  • Moudaress (1996)
  • Passion (2005)
  • Ladder to Damascus (2013)


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