Completed - ARABIC - Documentary - 110 minutes
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Francois VERSTER Writer(s) : Francois VERSTER Cast : Cem MANSUR, Hande KUDEN, Arfa ABDEL RASOOL, Hassan EL GERETLY, Magdy SOLIMAN, Mohammed ISMAEL, Fatma ADEL, Muammar ERBOY, Lale MANSUR, Maryam SALEH, Hani EL MASRY Producer(s) : Shameela SEEDAT (Undercurrent Film and Television), Wael OMAR (Middlewest Films), Neil BRANDT (Fireworx Media), Francois VERSTER
The Dream of Shahrazad traces the recent developments on the political and social levels in Egypt and Turkey in an unusually captivating way. Greatly inspired by the exotically famed story collection of 1001 Nights (aka Arabian Nights), the film merges music with political content and deploys the illustrious character of Shahrazad as a metaphor to explore how creativity and political articulation can coincide as a sharp weapon against oppression. The film features an array of individuals from different backgrounds including a Turkish youth orchestra conductor who uses Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade suite as a tool for political education; a young Lebanese actress who reconciles her past by becoming an internet activist in Egypt; an older visual artist who finds his "dream of Shahrazad" in the appearance of a beautiful young storyteller; and an Alexandrian storyteller who meets with the mothers of martyrs of the Revolution and turns their testimonies into new storytelling performances.
Country(ies) : SOUTH AFRICA, FRANCE, EGYPT, NETHERLANDS, LEBANON, TURKEY
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Sunny Side of the Doc 2012 (Best Documentary in Progress Award)Durban Film Festival 2015 (Best South African Documentary)Avanca Awards 2015 (Best International Television Film)Luxor African Film Festival 2015 (Al-Husseini Abu-Deif/Artwatch Africa award for the best Freedom Film)South African Film and Television 2016 (Best Documentary Film and Best Directing in a Documentary)