Republic of Silence

Jumhuriyat Al-Samt

Greek Premiere

Twelve years in the making, Republic of Silence bears witness to a tragedy on an epic scale, accompanied by an ever-expanding mosaic of fragile, deeply embedded moments from Diana El Jeiroudi’s life, beginning with the memory from the age of seven when her father gives her a camera, right up to the present day. Sometimes the frame holds a definitive version of what is happening in the world around the filmmaker. And then it collapses. White letters emerge on a black screen to conjure her inner world in this cinematic memoir. A formal and orderly life in Berlin competes with a life in Damascus that is perforated by dictatorship and dismantled by wars and international political corruption. El Jeiroudi takes solace in cinema, music, the serenity of dreams, and the daily solidarity of a durable and abiding love story.

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Direction: Diana El Jeiroudi

Script: Diana El Jeiroudi

Cinematography: Sebastian Baeumler, Diana El Jeiroudi, Orwa Nyrabia, Guevara Namer

Editing: Katja Dringenberg, Diana El Jeiroudi

Sound: Pascal Capitolin, Diana El Jeiroudi, Raphaël Girardot, Nathalie Vidal

Production: No Nation Films, Les Films d'ici

Producers: Orwa Nyrabia, Diana El Jeiroudi, Camille Laemlé

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Germany, France, Syria, Qatar

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 183΄

Contact: No Nation Films

Awards/Distinctions: Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize for Best Documentary Film, Honorable Mention (International Documentary Competition) – DOK Leipzig 2021