2022 | United Kingdom, Denmark | Experimental

As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

  • Arabic English 21 mins
  • Director | Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
  • Producer | Ali Roche

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Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace.

Palestinian Arabic maternal haunting traditional