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The Dam

The Dam (السد)

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  • Serbia,
  • Germany,
  • Sudan,
  • France,
  • Greece,
  • Qatar,
  • Netherlands,
  • Lebanon
  • 2023
  • · 84m

Director Ali Cherri
Cast Maher El Khair, Mudathir Musa, Santino Aguer Ding, Abo Algassim Sir Alkhatim, Ayman Sharif, Nemr Abou Nassar
Genre Drama, Mystery

Every night, Maher, a bricklayer, secretly builds an enigmatic mud structure out in the desert. He continues every day in spite of the grisly wound on his back that is spreading and worsening. As the people of Sudan start to fight for freedom and independence, Maher's sculpture starts to come to life.

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80

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

It’s a poetic picture which combines a dispassionate account of the lives of the brick-makers with a dash of magical realism.

60

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It’s interesting work, though perhaps it fetishizes Maher’s enigmatic silence a little too much.