The Burdened

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The Burdened

2023

1h 31m

Drama

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Aden, Yemen. Isra'a and Ahmed put all their efforts offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra'a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family's interest.

Jonathan Romney

Screen International

What’s striking is how extremely spare and to the point Gamal’s storytelling style is: there’s zero fat on the bones of this story, giving the film a taut directness.

Feb 22, 2023

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Frank J. Avella

Awards Daily

Abortion dramas are not rare, but we hardly ever see depictions of people of a certain age making the decision.

Rated: B-

Dec 2, 2023

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Jay Weissberg

The Film Verdict

Shot by Mrinal Desai ("Court") in a deceptively straightforward style that adds a heightened feeling of authenticity, the film is a rigorously controlled, moving evocation of a family exhausted by the difficulties of keeping it all together.

Jun 6, 2023

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Sarah Manvel

Critic's Notebook

Its kindness and intuition about human nature and the way in which it uses location to reflect mood are skills filmmakers from many other nations could stand to study.

Mar 15, 2023

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Gayle Sequeira

Film Companion

Grocery shopping becomes an excursion into the limits of the couple’s pockets. The act of preparing dinner becomes a race against time before yet another power cut. Couched in the exasperated expressions of parenthood is the language of financial stress.

Mar 9, 2023

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

Gamal mostly frames his characters in wide shots, letting his camera linger on Aden’s cluttered exteriors after a stretch of dialogue ends, giving viewers the space to dwell on an ailing city on the brink.

Mar 7, 2023

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Synopsis

Aden, Yemen. Isra'a and Ahmed put all their efforts offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra'a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family's interest.

Director: Amr Gamal
Producer: Mohsen Alkhalifi, Amr Gamal
Screenwriter: Amr Gamal, Mazen Refaat
Production Co: Adenium Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1h 31m