Joud Saeed
Director · b. 1980 · Syria
Joud Said is a Syrian director and writer born in 1980 in Damascus, Syria. He holds an MA in Directing from Lousi lomiere in France (2007). He has under his belt a number of shorts and feature films that toured international festivals garnering awards, including Monologue (2007), Wada’an (2008), Mara Okhra (2009) that garnered Best Arab Film award at San Francisco Film Festival and Jury award at Damascus Film Festival, My Last Friend (2012), Waiting For the Fall (2015) that won the golden prize at Horizons of Arab Cinema Competition at Cairo International Film Festival and Best Script award at Oran International Arabic Film.
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Movie10.0DramaRomanceThe autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.
MovieDramaStory revolves around a love story between a soldier at a checkpoint and a girl living next door, who face political differences and the problems of war. The events and personalities of the film also monitor stories from the contemporary Syrian scene that bear the smallest details, as the film deals with the daily and daily reality in Syria.