It’s not often that films shoot in the Occupied Golan Heights, Israel’s contested border territory with Syria and Lebanon. Characterized by sloping mountains and the ruins of more than 100 Sy…
It’s not often that films shoot in the Occupied Golan Heights, Israel’s contested border territory with Syria and Lebanon.
The Arab and German crew shot in rough conditions, including dense fog that hugged the mountain villages that are now reduced to rubble. Slush washed over the empty roads leading to the Syrian border, and heavy snow falls cut off Majdal Shams, the biggest town in the area, from the rest of the world, to create a shadowy darkness in this post-Christmas shoot in 2019 by first-time feature directorEldin directed from his own script.
“This idea is valid, unfortunately, these days in the Arab world: To be a black sheep or the unwanted seed. That’s the story. The main character is in an existential crisis from the Syrian war. But this experience could happen in different dimensions in different worlds,” he adds. Shooting in circa 20 locations was eventful. Under the watchful eye of the Israeli tanks patrolling the border, the team, at one point, broke out into an Arab folk dance. A discarded sofa created a rest area for the German crew in a remote location. They were dropped off each night, cold and wet, to sleep in the local hospital, which provided beds to support the production.
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