NEWS

We are honored that our documentary trilogy "On The Edge of Life" by Yaser Kassab and Rima Al-hamedd has been featured in Eleni Giakouvaki's article, Contemplations on Belonging, for the Swedish Film Institute Swedish Film Institute . Many thanks for the thoughtful piece and insightful reflections on themes of displacement and identity!

"Chasing the Dazzling Light" at Venice Biennale Arte 2024
Friday 14 June
On view at ACP at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice, the exhibition highlights works by more than 40 filmmakers and video artists.

Coinciding with the 60th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Your Ghosts Are Mine – Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices brings the visions of dozens of filmmakers and video artists from the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia to the art world’s most prestigious stage. It includes selected films supported, co-financed or initiated by the Doha Film Institute  and video works from the collections of Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art  and the future Art Mill Museum Veniceartfactory 

📍Location: ACP Palazzo Franchetti (I noble floor), S. Marco 2847

Dates: April 19th - November 24th, 2024

Open Wednesday to Monday (closed on Tuesdays), 10am-6pm

"Chasing The Dazzling Light" got the best first feature documentary at IDFA: 

Members of the jury were greatly impressed "by the filmmaker's total command of the cinematic language, using very simple, even austere elements and a clever and insightful sense of humor to tell a complex story about exile, family loss, nostalgia, loneliness, and to do so in a self-reflective, dignified and moving way."


"Chasing The Dazzling Light" The World Premiere at IDFA:

We are delighted to share with you that our new film, 'Chasing the Dazzling Light,' has been selected for its world premiere in the official competition of the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival IDFA, which will take place from November 8th to November 19th.


"Long Take" The World Premiere at Uppsala Short Film Festival:

We're delighted to share that our new film, “Long Take” has been selected for its world premiere in the national competition at the 42nd edition of the Uppsala Short Film Festival, which will take place between October 23rd and 29th. 


"On the Edge of Life" Has a corner at an article about Intimate Exile:

World records Journal in their latest volume address the questions "How do generations engage in political struggle together, even as their horizons diverge?"

and they published several articles that reflect on the Syrian cinema.

Nicolas Appelt writes an article "Bidayyat \ Intimate Exile"


As part of the colloquium "Creations proof of exile of war" 

at Université Sorbonne,  Camille Leprince will present an analysis of the Syrian film On the edge of life by Yaser Kassab and Rima Alhamedd,  the/ panel Genres, shapes, spaces from 11:45 to 1.15 p.m. 

DOKUMENTÄRFOTOSALONG 2020: KAOS at Norrköping arbetarmuseum

Photography exhebition at Oslo City Campaign, Berlin City Campaign


ON THE EDGE OF LIFE – Prix du jury at FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL

de Yasser Kassab (Syrie, 2017, documentaire, 44 minutes)

Rima and Yasser fled Syria. They are in Beirut, then somewhere in Turkey, as prisoners of an indefinite no man’s land. Yaser Kassab films his companion Rima, the soulless decor where they found refuge, the moon, the pupil full in an eye of black clouds. And everywhere resonate the words of loved ones left in Syria, the guilt of not being there to survive or die with them.

https://www.espace-1789.com/film/festival-du-film-de-famille-le-palmar%C3%A8s-0 

"On the edge of life" as a Best documentary and Best mid-length documentary at Tirana Film Festival

Jury's motivation:

"A heart-rending personal essay on grief and uprooting, on the limbo states of existence"

"On the edge of life" best -mid-length documentary at  Festival dei Popoli 

 jury's motivation:

 "Both lyrical and personal, this film relates an urgent and all-too-common experience today employing a unique cinematic language which creates an important space for contemplation. A story of survival in a contemporary moment of uncertainty, the film gathers textures and images which attest to displacement and struggle but also their representation. Generous, open, subtle and filled with unsuspecting poetry, this film demonstrates how art, cinema and human connection are integral to existence in dire circumstances."

"On the edge of life" best  first film at Cinema Du reel 2017
European Foundation Joris Ivens  jury's motivation for the award as a best first film in the 39th edition of cinema du reel film festival.

Yaser Kassab transcend the process of mourning, developing a particular cinematic treatment of space, both internal and external.