SAMOUNI ROAD

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SAMOUNI ROAD

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SAMOUNI ROAD

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SAMOUNI ROAD

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SAMOUNI ROAD

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SAMOUNI ROAD

Film Info

Italy 2018 | 129 min. Director: Stefano Savona

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Project / Host

European Film Awards

SAMOUNI ROAD

Synopsis

In the rural outskirts of Gaza City, a small community of farmers, the extended Samouni family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighbourhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors’ recollections, SAMOUNI ROAD conveys a deep, multi-faceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.

Cast & Crew

Director

Stefano Savona
Producer

Marco Alessi, Penelope Bortoluzzi, Cécile Lestrade
Screenwriter

Stefano Savona, Léa Mysius, Penelope Bortoluzzi
Director of photography

Stefano Savona
Editor (Cut)

Luc Forveille
Sound Design

Jean Mallet, Margot Testemale
Original Score

Giulia Tagliavia

Biography

Stefano Savona was born in Palermo. Before moving to Paris to pursue a career in filmmaking, he studied Archeology and Anthropology in Rome and the UK and travelled extensively throughout the Near East to take part in different archeological excavations.
This same region is where he later shot most of his films: among others, NOTES FROM A KURDISH REBEL (2006), CAST LEAD (2009) and TAHRIR LIBERATION SQUARE (2011).

Filmography:
2018 - Samouni Road
2011 - Tahrir Liberation Square
2011 - Palazzo delle Aquile
2010 - Spezzacatene
2009 - Cast Lead
2006 - Notes from a Kurdish Rebel