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Dominican Rep. Of God and Dogs (Dieu et les chiens) (S)
- Original title
- Of God and Dogs (Dieu et les chiens)
- Year
- 2014
- Running time
- 13 min.
- Country
Syria- Director
- Screenwriter
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Short Film
- Synopsis
- A young Free Syrian Army fighter confesses. He says he killed a man he questioned extensively, and knew to be innocent. He narrates how he had to shoot a short range bullet, before going to bury him in tears. Then he promises to avenge the God who led him to commit the murder. And he askes the director to stop filming.
The Abounaddara collective brings together self-taught filmmakers who, since the demonstrations against the Bashar Al-Assad regime began in spring 2011, have been publishing short films online from their Damascus base every week to document the realities of Syria today. Anonymous and on an equal footing with the ordinary men and women they film, the members of Abounaddara practise a kind of “emergency cinema”, accepting as their peers Dziga Vertov and the Syrian elders, including Omar Amiralay, who died on the eve of the “revolution”. Of God and Dogs is therefore a blunt, precise and raw testimony by filmmakers whose images burn your retinas as they expose the banality of the evil that resides in our depths. A haunted man on the run recounts in a fixed close-up the interrogation of an innocent man whom he had to finish off with a gunshot, unable as he was to bear any longer to witness the “humiliation” of the ceaseless torture that his comrades in arms were inflicting upon the victim.
- Awards
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2014: Sundance Film Festival: Best Short Film Grand Jury Prize
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