Mahmoud Darwish
Know for: Acting
Born: 1941-03-13
Place of birth: Al-Birwa, Mandatory Palestine
Also know as:
Palestinian Identity (1984)
In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from...
Mahmoud Darwish: As the Land Is the Language (1998)
Accompanying from a place to another the poet who spent years in exile far from his native land of al-Birwa, in Haifa, Cyprus, Tunis, Amman, Paris,...
Notre Musique (2004)
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war...
Write Down, I Am an Arab (2014)
"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab...
All About Mahmoud Darwish (2009)
Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish...
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)
Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody...
Os Mortos Resistirão Para Sempre (2024)
Cinepoem about the current Palestinian tragedy, with Brazilian films from 1922 and 1932 (the indigenous catastrophe), documentaries from 2023/2024,...
No hay Eco en el Eco (2024)
A visual interpretation of the poem "the girl / the scream" by Mahmud Darwish.
Two Travellers to a River (2018)
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...