"Everything was decided very quickly," commented the renowned Syrian filmmaker Osama Mohammed, on his arrival at the Cannes Film Festival, where his movie has been invited to participate within the Fortnight sidebar. The director also headed the panel discussion entitled, "Making films in a dictatorship."
Born in 1954, Osama Mohammed has made only two feature films: Stars in Broad Daylight (1988) presented at Directors' Fortnight, and Sacrifices (2002), shown in the selection called Un Certain Regard (A Certain Glance or A Particular Outlook), a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection ).
During the discussion the filmmaker said that: "Today, we look at another film that deals with death and tragedy, but also of hope. For fifty years Syrians have not defended their rights."
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