Dreams of the City
- 1984 (1984)
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Dreams of the City (Ahlam al-Madina". mecfilm. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
External links
- Ahlam al-Madina at IMDb
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- 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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