{"id":26640,"date":"2015-01-28T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=26640"},"modified":"2015-01-29T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:42:11","slug":"almohannad-kalthoum-a-unique-filmmaking-experience-that-documents-the-syrian-national-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=26640","title":{"rendered":"Almohannad Kalthoum, a unique filmmaking experience that documents the Syrian national concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA – Since he was unable to realize his dream in becoming a pilot in the Syrian Army to\u00a0defend his country, Almohannad Kalthoum turned to another career that enables him to uphold the values of\u00a0patriotism.<\/p>\n

He chose to become a filmmaker serving his country’s national and humanitarian issues through a creative\u00a0vision that proved to be distinctive on both the local and Arab arenas, finishing his academic studies by\u00a0making films considered to be visual documents that depict the Syrian civilization’s characteristics.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Kalthoum spoke to SANA about his artistic experience, saying that his artistic journey began\u00a0when he was a student at the School for Martyrs’ Children, where he joined the theatre group, and later he\u00a0got a training course on how to direct plays under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and the\u00a0Revolutionary Youth Union.<\/p>\n

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Kalthoum explained that from the beginning, he had a natural inclination towards filmmaking and that is why\u00a0he travelled to Ukraine in 2003 to study it, because at that time there were no schools or institutes specialized in teaching filmmaking or TV production.<\/p>\n

The young filmmaker added that he was lucky to become an ambassador of Syria abroad through his\u00a0works.<\/p>\n

Kalthoum was able to adapt to the Ukrainian society\u2019s norms and traditions, earning the love and respect of\u00a0those around him, and he used his films to reflect the concerns of young people there. He also became the\u00a0Chairman of the Media Department for the Syrian Community in Kharkov which enabled him to take part in\u00a0organizing artistic and tourism exhibitions as well as screening films that introduce people to Syria.<\/p>\n

While studying in Ukraine, Kalthoum made a series of short films, the most prominent of them being “Hope,\u00a0Faith, Love” which was a 15-minute short film made as a graduation project to get his B.A in filmmaking, but\u00a0the film that drew the most acclaim was titled “Enough” which was the project to get his Master’s degree. In\u00a0this film, Kalthoum addressed the subject of Nazi racism, and he was honored for this film by the Governor\u00a0of Kharkov who awarded him the City’s Award in 2010.<\/p>\n

Upon his return to Syria, Kalthoum began to follow up the styles and approaches used in Syrian filmmaking,\u00a0and made a film entitled “Barzakh” (the title refers to an Islamic concept similar to purgatory) which tackled\u00a0the topic of the occupied Syrian Golan.<\/p>\n

Since then, Kalthoum made tens of short films and documentaries in which he documented human interest\u00a0stories, where the dominant topic was about the Syrians’ national concerns.<\/p>\n

He also accompanied the Syrian Arab Army in the battlefield, and shared the journey of students of the\u00a0Syrian scientific Olympics throughout their activities and recent successes. Films made by Kalthoum are full\u00a0of noble human values, particularly love and patriotism.<\/p>\n

Kalthoum concluded by saying that he has no redlines in dealing with a script; what is important to him is for\u00a0the script to have a message, unity, and coherence, as was the case with his short film “High Voltage” which\u00a0won the Award of Honor in the Taharqa International Festival in Sudan.<\/p>\n

High Voltage’s script was written by Samer Mohammed Ismail, and produced by the National Film\u00a0Organization. The film is about a love story between a young lighting technician working for TV production\u00a0companies and a young woman coming from the countryside to study the art of theater in Damascus.<\/p>\n

Ghinwa Maia \/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA – Since he was unable to realize his dream in becoming a pilot in the Syrian Army to\u00a0defend his country, Almohannad Kalthoum turned to another career that enables him to uphold the values of\u00a0patriotism. He chose to become a filmmaker serving his country’s national and humanitarian issues through a creative\u00a0vision that proved to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,453,147,486],"tags":[4107,734,4110,4108,4111,4109],"class_list":["post-26640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-arts-culture","category-reports","category-drama-and-sinai-and-theater","category-youth","tag-almohannad-kalthoum","tag-cinema","tag-director","tag-film","tag-filmmaker","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}