A Plate of Sardines

1997 French film
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
17 minutesCountryFranceLanguagesArabic, French and English subtitles

A Plate of Sardines (Arabic: طبق السردين) is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay.[1] In it, Amiralay tells the story of how he first heard of Israel. In the documentary, he controversially criticized the Israeli and Syrian governments, the latter of which banned the film.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Cinéma du réel - A Dish of Sardines (Tabaq al Sardine)". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
  2. ^ Van de Peer, Stefanie, 'Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria', Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary (Edinburgh, 2017; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696062.003.0008, accessed 24 June 2024.
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