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REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Syria 2021 – Director: Diana El Jeiroudi – Original with English subtitles, Q&A with Diana El Jeiroudi (director) – Length: 181 min.
In exile in Berlin there is calm – but what has been happening in her homeland of Syria for more than a decade makes the director break up inside. The traumas and wounds of experiencing and fleeing from civil war run deep. Skilfully put together from a wide variety of fragments, the film provides a radically personal viewpoint. Uncompromising and moving at the same time. Maren Willkomm
Winner of the Goethe-Institut Award 2021, given at DOK Leipzig
No youth rating
Diana El Jeiroudi
She graduated in English literature and worked successfully in advertising and marketing. After that, she specialized in documentary film. She is co-founder of the production company No Nation Films GmbH as well as the Syrian film festival DOX BOX, where she also served as festival director. As a jury member, she was in Cannes in 2015, at the IDFA and at CPH:DOX, among others. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Deutsche Filmakademie. Diana El Jeiroudi works as a producer and director in Berlin.
Filmography
MORNING FEARS, NIGHT CHANTS, SY 2012, 34 min.
DOLLS: A WOMAN FROM DAMASCUS, SY/DK 2007, 53 min
THE POT, SY, 2005, 12 min.
GOOD MORNING DAMASCUS, SY, 2004, 20 min.
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Production: Diana El Jeiroudi, No Nation Films GmbH/Les Films d'Ici, ARTE France. Producer: Diana El Jeiroudi. Distribution: Salzgeber
