Republic of Silence (2021)
Festivals (Selection)
Venice International Film Festival | 2021 | World Premier
Official Selection (out of competition)
International Competition | Dok Leipzig | 2021
Golden Dove Honourable Mention
Goethe Institute Film Prize for Best German Film
International Film Festival Rotterdam | 2022
Official Selection (Harbour)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | 2022
Top Docs
Visions du Réel | 2022
Latitudes
Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln | 2022
Panorama
BelDocs International Doc Film Festival Serbia| 2022
International Competition
DOK.Fest München Film Festival| 2022
Best of Fest
Bildrausch Film Festival| 2022
Wound/Wonder
Golden Apricot International Film Festival| 2022
Regional Competition
A Film by Diana El Jeiroudi
A Coproduction of No Nation Films GmbH and Les Films d’Ici, in Association with Proaction Film (Syria)
Producers: Orwa Nyrabia and Diana El Jeiroudi and Camille Laemle
Cinematography by Sebastian Baeumler, Diana El Jeiroudi, Orwa Nyrabia, Guevara Namer
Editing: Katja Dringenberg and Diana El Jeiroudi
Sound Recording: Pascal Capitolin, Diana El Jeiroudi
Sound Editing: Raphael Girardot
Sound Mixing: Nathalie Vidal
Supported by: FFA, MBB, DFFF, BKM, Arte France, CNC, AFAC, DFI, Procirep.
Distributors: Salzgeber Editions (Germany)
Germany, France, Syria, Qatar
Arabic, German, English, Kurdish, 180 min, 2K DCP 5.1
SYNOPSIS
Twelve years in the making, Republic of Silence bears witness to a tragedy on an epic scale, accompanied by an ever-expanding mosaic of fragile, deeply embedded moments from Diana El Jeiroudi’s life, beginning with the memory from the age of seven when her father gives her a camera, right up to the present day.
Sometimes the frame holds a definitive version of what is happening in the world around the filmmaker. And then it collapses. White letters emerge on a black screen to conjure her inner world in this cinematic memoir. A formal and orderly life in Berlin competes with a life in Damascus that is perforated by dictatorship and dismantled by wars and international political corruption. Director El Jeiroudi takes solace in cinema, music, the serenity of dreams, and the daily solidarity of a durable and abiding love story.