The Black Flour-Ghassan Shmeit-2001

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The Black Flour

Directed by: Ghassan Shmeit

Script: Ghassan Shmeit- Hassan Hameed

Camera: Abdo Hamzeh

Music: Sameeh Shkeer

Duration: 120 min/colour

Year: 2001

Cast: Assaad Fedda, Abdulrahman Abou Al-Qassem, Mania Nabawani,

Synopsis:

This film recaptures a period in the history of Syria, that of post-independence, to tell a social story that aims at looking into human relations and the changes taking place in the rural community. The plot of the story is not mere memories of the writer, but are impressions of certain incidents that remained in his imagination. Therefore, the dramatic events are made in such a way as to mythologize the place, and so the place has acquired a unique particularity and the events have such close link to it. It is a social story that deal with the destiny of a certain group of people and give a full picture of the Syrian countryside at the end of the 1940’s , trying on depend on the folklore in its weaving of the relations between the characters and the method of understanding the events.