The General Cinema Corporation in Syria decided to shoot a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada and the fierce Israeli offensive on the Palestinians. The film was scripted by Qmar al Zaman Alloush under the direction of Bilal al Sabouni.
“The film tackles in depth the barbaric and brutal practices and the annihilation and destructive war which the Israeli occupation forces have been launching on the armless Palestinian people,” Alloush told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
The corporation is gearing up in cooperation with the Moroccan Cinema Center to produce a joint film based on a novel by Syrian writer Hasan Sami Yousef entitled Bawabat al Jannah (Paradise Gateway). The film will depict the current circumstances in Palestine.
The Intifada has also cast its shadow over the TV programs as the Syrian TV has begun today (Nakba Day) to broadcast a program live under the title Ma’aki Ya Filisteen (We Are with You Palestine). The program included interviews with intellectual and political figures from Syria and other Arab countries in addition to artist to talk about the Palestinian Intifada and how to support it. The interviews also feature a number of testimonies about the inhuman actions, which the Palestinian people have been facing including the massacres in Jenin Camp and Nablus.
On the other hand, the Syrian director Manal Salhiyyah has wrapped up a song about Palestinian plight written by Jumanah Noman and composed by Samir Kwaifati. The Syrian singer Mayyadah Bsilis will perform the song along with the child Tareq Salim.
The song was inspired from the event in which the bell ringer at the Nativity Church was killed in the Palestinian City of Bethlehem by the Israeli forces during their siege of the church. The theme of the song is about a mother who asks her son to ring the bell which represents a call from the Palestinians to the whole world imploring their help to rescue them from the occupation crimes -- Albawaba.com
