Atash

Starring:

Hussein Yassin Mahajne | Amal Bweerat | Roba Blal | Jamila Abu Hussein | Ahamed Abed Elrani

Director:

Tawfik Abu Wael

Genres:

Arthouse | Drama | World Cinema

Languages:

Arabic

Reviews:

2 reviews

A family of five, their two goats and donkey live in the middle of nowhere far from their village home. They earn meager living by producing and selling charcoal, made from the surrounding trees. The father and son are the only ones who ever return to their native village. The Mother and two daughters have not left this place since the day they abandoned home, 10 years ago. One day the father decides to provide running water for the family by illegally diverting water onto their land. The three women recoil from the idea but the teenage son obeys submissively anything to be allowed to continue attending school. The water surging through the pipe parallels the surging resentment the family feels towards the father. He brought them to this place against their will and they know the reason they left their home is also the reason they can never return, but the newly free-flowing water on their land re-awakens the instinctive desire for freedom they have been repressing all these years...

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jarlath from Galway, 03 Sep 2007

best use for this is a bird scarer or beer mat awful total waste of time

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oddly interesting

Maire from Dublin, 27 Aug 2008

nothing much happens in this film but it is fraught with the effects of the daughters rape 10 years earlier and the father's obsession with staying where they are, in the middle of nowhere, living a life like hermits. A very sad story and it illustrates how a woman's life can be destroyed by a rape but is also about the father's loss of face. Very sad.

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