Once I entered a garden
SYNOPSIS
It begins with a dream about an impossible encounter between Avi Mograbi and his grandfather, Ibrahim, in Damascus in 1920. To make his dream come true, Avi turns to his Arabic teacher and friend, Ali Al-Azhari, and suggests making a film together. Mograbi weaves a narrative about filmmaking and identity.
With the presence of the director
Israeli filmmaker and video artist Avi Mograbi was born in 1956 in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works to this day. Having studied art and philosophy, he gained his first production experiences working as an assistant director on commercials and feature films, while his own filmmaking career began in 1989. Since 1999, he has taught documentary and experimental film at Tel Aviv University and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Mograbi, one of Israel’s most distinguished filmmakers, is known for his unwavering commitment to social, cultural and political justice in the Middle East, as well as his experimentalism and innovative contribution to cinematic language. Avi Mogrbi’s documentary films have been programmed by festivals worldwide, including: Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rome, New York, FID Marseille, Vision du Reel and San Francisco, among others.
Year: 2012
Country: Israel
Length: 97 min
Language: Hebrew, Arabic, French
Subtitles: Spanish and English
Writer & Director: Avi Mograbi
Production: Les Films d’Ici, Avi Mograbi Productions, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG
Cinematography: Philippe Bellaïche
Editing: Rainer Trinkler
Sound Design and Mix: Florian Eidenbenz
Music: Noam Enbar
