There Are So Many Things Still to Say

There Are So Many Things Still to Say (Arabic: وهناك أشياء كثيرة كان يمكن أن يتحدث عنها المرء) is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. The film was based on an interview with Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer. Wannous, Amiralay's friend, speaks about his disappointment and grief relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict and the 1991 Gulf War.[1]

There Are So Many Things Still to Say
وهناك أشياء كثيرة كان يمكن أن يتحدث عنها المرء
Directed byOmar Amiralay
Produced byARTE France - Grains de Sable
Narrated bySaadallah Wannous
CinematographyEtienne De Grammont
Edited byDominique Pâris
Distributed byGrains de Sable
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
49 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Syria
LanguagesArabic, French and English subtitles

References

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  1. ^ Van de Peer, Stefanie, 'Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria', Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (Edinburgh, 2017; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696062.003.0008, accessed 24 June 2024.