Nezouh

2022

1 hr. 44 min.

War

Drama

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67%

6 Reviews

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14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste of freedom, and an unimaginable world of possibility opens up for her. As the violence outside escalates, the family is pressured to evacuate, but Mutaz, her father is adamant that they stay, refusing to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. Faced with a life or death dilemma, Zeina and Hala, her mother, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.

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Soudade Kaadan

Director

Kinda Alloush

Hala

Samer Al Masri

Mutaz

Hala Zein

Actor

Nizar Alani

Actor

Soudade Kaadan

Screenwriter

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Hamza Shehryar

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An enticing addition to the underrated Arab film industry.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 25, 2024

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Anna Smith

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Director Soudade Kaadan... continues to impress with this empathetic story of life under siege.

Sep 11, 2022

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Jay Weissberg

The Film Verdict

The director-writer plays with a gentle form of magic realism, and while there’s no denying some lovely moments here, her characters speak as if on a theater stage, while the dun-colored visuals lack texture or differentiation

Jun 6, 2023

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Ruben Peralta Rigaud

Cocalecas

While Nezouh works wonderfully well as a symbolic evocation of a more hopeful Syria, it is less successful as a drama, which means it lacks as a fictional record of the human experience. [Full review in Spanish]

Sep 6, 2022

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

Nezouh is too unenterprising, too exasperatingly modest, to inject a new-found urgency to a subject that has been milked the past 11 years.

Sep 6, 2022

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Jonathan Holland

Screen International

An intense and delicate film that bravely seeks to upend expectations of what the term “Syrian drama” generally suggests — violence and victims.

Sep 3, 2022

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Synopsis

14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste of freedom, and an unimaginable world of possibility opens up for her. As the violence outside escalates, the family is pressured to evacuate, but Mutaz, her father is adamant that they stay, refusing to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. Faced with a life or death dilemma, Zeina and Hala, her mother, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.

Director: Soudade Kaadan
Screenwriter: Soudade Kaadan
Genre: War, Drama
Original Language: Arabic