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The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors’ recollections, Samouni Road conveys a deep, multifaceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.
Documentary, 2h 8m. In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It's going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees.
Samouni Road (Italian: La strada dei Samouni) is a 2018 Italian documentary film directed by Stefano Savona. The film uses a combination of live action, scratchboard animation and drone footage recreations.
Samouni Road: Directed by Stefano Savona. With Amal Samouni, Fouad Samouni. In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It's going to be the first celebration since the latest war.
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- Documentary, Animation
- Stefano Savona
- 2018-10-08
Italian filmmaker Stefano Savona spent nine years trying to reconstruct what happened to make Samouni Road. The film combines vérité video with striking black-and-white animation and simulated drone footage to dramatize the catastrophe, underlining the continuing strain the conflict places on Palestinian citizens—and highlighting the ...
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye Prize, Stefano Savona’s 2018 documentary follows the Samouni family; a small community of farmers who are about to celebrate a wedding in the rural outskirts of Gaza City.
May 10, 2018 · Samouni Road is an impelling and passionate film, shot with the ideological detachment of experienced documentary maker Stefano Savona, an archaeologist and anthropologist.
