'It is a beautiful world,' a Syrian film where fiction meets reality | Nidal Koshha | AW - The Arab Weekly

DAMASCUS--Young Syrian director Rami Nidal Hamidi is putting the final touches to his film “It is a Beautiful World”.

In the movie, which was produced by Syria’s General Film Organisation, there are worlds and obsessions experienced by a simple couple who have lost contact with their son who is serving in the army. No news reaches them about him, so they live awaiting anxiously to hear of his fate.

“It’s a Beautiful World” stars Tayseer Idris, Rana Jammoul, Dina Khankan, Majd Musharraf, Talib Azizi, Bilal Bouzo and Muhannad Bazai.

Hamidi is one of the young Syrians who studied cinema academically. After taking economics and graduating from Damascus University, he left for Egypt to study cinema. After his graduation, he worked in advertising. With primitive production efforts, he presented a cinematic attempt entitled “Seven and a Quarter Evening” and the work received special mention from the jury at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2019, which was held in Gaza.

Hamidi says of this work, “I am glad that I had the opportunity to shoot a film in an old studio such as the General Cinema Corporation, with a professional team that gives all its energy to work.”

He adds, “In the film, I present the viewpoint of two parents who lived during a time of cruel war, which imposed on them many details that could be encountered by any two people who live the same experience”. .

Starring in “It is a Beautiful World” is Tayseer Idris, an actor who has taken famous theatre and television roles during his career. In this films he plays the father.

Idris says, “The father’s role in the film presents important ideas and highlights great human values in terms of his attachment to his family and his son and how he insists on defending them. With him, truth and imagination overlap and dreams become part of his daily life.”

The mother, played by Rana Jammoul, has a decisive role in the story. She is the one who, despite her spiritual defeats,  is a bridge of communication between the young man and the father and she resists the difficult circumstances the family faces with much resilience.

Jammoul is an artist who has worked in the  cinema career from when she was a student at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts.

She  says “When I read the script, I knew that I was faced with a different experience, despite dealing with the theme of war, but it presented it with a lot of transparency. There is no war, violence and blood, but rather human effects of the cruelty generated by wars.”

She added, “I loved dealing with the director, as he is calm and knows what he wants to be said. He presents in the film slow temporal rhythms as an indication of the slow pace of our daily lives in light of the waiting imposed on us, I mean here, the mother and her husband. All of this happens in parallel with the fast and noisy pace of the outside world around us”.

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