A Plate of Sardines

A Plate of Sardines (1997)

Le plat de sardines

Or The First Time I Heard of Israel.

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.

Date of release
1997-09-22
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Omar Amiralay

Casting

Interesting facts

A Plate of Sardines is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. In it, Amiralay tells the story of how he first heard of Israel. In the documentary, he controversially criticized the Israeli and Syrian governments, the latter of which banned the film.

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