Still Recording

Mar 27 2019 N/A 2h 0m
Documentary, War

Saeed is a young cinephile trying to teach film rules to other young people in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, but the reality they face is too harsh to respect any rules. Saeed’s friend, Milad, is on the other side of the fence; in Damascus, a city under the control of the Assad regime, finishing his studies in Fine Arts. At one point, Milad decides to leave the capital and joins Saeed in a Douma under siege, where they set up a local radio station and a recording studio. They hold the camera to film everything, until one day it is the camera that films them.

Plot

In 2011, twenty-year-old Saeed, an engineering student, left Damascus for Douma (eastern Ghouta) and took part in the Syrian revolution. He will be joined later by his friend Milad, a painter and sculptor, then a student of fine arts in Damascus. In Duma liberated by rebels, revolutionary enthusiasm wins youth, then it is war and siege. For more than four years, Saeed and Milad film a daily newspaper punctuated by bombings, children who grow in the ruins we graze, laughter, a sniper who thinks of his mother, music, death, madness, youth, trouble, life. Radiography of an unsubmissive territory, a look of exceptional density on the war in a movement of cinema and humanity striking.

Written by

Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub

Directed by

Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub

Cast

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Crew

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Production Countries

Syrian Arab Republic, France, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar

Production Companies

Blinker Filmproduktion, Films de Force Majeure

Languages

Awards

13 wins & 6 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
156
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA