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Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love-45’ With Laetitia Dosch & Charif Ghattas – Qumra
Syrian-French Director Anas Khalaf Unveils Post-Bashar Al-Assad Feel-Good Tennis Drama ‘Love 45’ With Laetitia Dosch & Charif Ghattas - Qumra
EXCLUSIVE: Anas Khalaf and Rana Kazkaz’s Mare Nostrum and The Translator count among the rare fiction works made by Syrian directors tackling the 2011 democracy protests and President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal 14-year campaign to crush them. Khalaf is now in the late stages of development on Beirut and Bekaa Valley-set tennis-themed fiction feature Love 45, which he has been presenting to potential production and sales partners this week at the Doha Film Institute’s talent and project incubator event Qumra. The Photographer is about Syrian military police whistleblowerFarid Nada al-Madhhan, code-named Caesar, who leaked photos of tens of thousands of people who died under torture and neglect while in al-Assad’s notorious detention centers.
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