Purple Roses

Directed by Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed
2021    67mRomance, Documentary,
Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their lifejackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.

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Cast of Purple Roses

  • Amel AlzakoutSelf - Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer
  • Khaled AbdulwahedDirector / Writer
  • Alex GerbauletProducer
  • Ines MeierProducer

 

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