On the dry bank of the river

During the war, the father dies, the rest of the family gathers. Three siblings, after years of separation, must deal with their fractured relationships and the death of the father.

Written, Edited & Directed by Almourad Aldeeb
Director of Photography Yakob El Deeb
Cast Mohammad Dibo, Fatina Laila, Mhd Wahid Albarzawi
1st Assistant Director Soheil Aghazadeh
2nd Assistant Director Youssef Mahfouz
Gaffer Malte Hafner
Sound Jerri Bazata
Lighting Assistant York Friedrich
1st Camera Assistant Sarah Kramer, Fabian M. Anger
2nd Camera Assistant (Film Loader) Victor Gütay
Set Design Leen Kayyali
Set Design Assistants Yuantian Gao, Mingxi Groagez
KHM Workshop Sepp Liebisch
Costume Design Rula Ali
Makeup Artist Mingxi Groagez
Set Manager Aida Alimadadi
Production Assistants Youssef Mahfouz, Aida Alimadadi
Production Almourad Aldeeb, Viktoria Gurina, Golnaz Hourmadi
Set Photography Ayham Khalifa, Bemard Mescherowsky
Music Khaled Kurbeh
Vfx Artist Shuree Sarantuya
Sound Design and Mixing Judith Nordbrock;
Color Grading and DCP Ewald Hentze;
Editing Consulting Fani Schoinopoulou, Alejandro Bachmann, Mohamad Moe Sabbah, Youssef Mahfouz, Ahmad A. Albaki, Marja Suna Vormann
Additional Sound Design Joreng Jung
Poster Design Bashar Zein
Additional Assistants Sebastian Jaimes Marin, Moritz Marquardt, Mohamad Moe Sabbah, Richard Andreas Finger
KHM Project Office Petra Clemens; KHM Festivals Office Ute Dilger.

23

Minutes

2024

Release

Production

Germany

Bio – Filmography

Biography Almourad Aldeeb (he/him) is a Syrian filmmaker, based in Germany. He was born in Homs, Syria 1991. Started his art studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus.

Currently, Almourad is studying film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His practice is a search for a poetic expression, reflective and intense, aiming to find a particular narrative and film language.

In 2011, with the start of the civil movement in Syria, as a Syrian youth who believes in freedoms and human rights, Almourad participated in public demonstrations and the peaceful movement against the Syrian dictatorial regime.

In 2013, as a result of his civil activities, He was arrested and held captive in Assad’s prisons for several months, until mid-2014 when he was released from prison and fled Syria to Turkey then Germany to save himself from an inevitable fate.

Based on his personal experience, Almourad is trying to find a narrative that starts from what the Syrian people went through during the years of revolution and passes to the struggle of a generation confronting many crises all over the world.

 

Filmography:

2018 “Taif” 3min, experimental
2019 “The Plug” 3min, experimental
2020 “WilhelmsBazar“ 10min, Short Documentary
2021 “Waiting for the bus” 7min, Short Fiction
2022 “Wrong time, wrong place” 11min, Short Fiction
2023 “Flood” 11min, Short Experimental Documentary.

Fabula The Great Blue Within