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A Plate of Sardines
(Syria, 1997)

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'The first time I heard of Israel, I was in Beirut, the conversation was about a plate of sardines. I was six years old, Israel was two.' In the company of filmmaker Mohammad Malas, Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed village of Quneytra and reflects on Syria's Golan occupied by Israel.

Syria, 1997 / Omar Amiralay
19 mins