Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki (“Of Fathers and Sons”) is in Copenhagen this week pitching a top-secret documentary, “Hollywood Gate,” whose details are being kept under wraps during …
The new feature, which the director confirmed is not being filmed in his native Syria, is currently in production, with Derki expecting to secure most of his footage by the end of the year. “We don’t want to put [the director’s] life in danger,” said Derki, who spoke exclusively toDescribing the high-risk feature as a “very promising film,” the director said it’s the product of “very rare access” to “dangerous people” in key positions in an undisclosed country.
The Oscar-nominated director is also in the editing room with “A Song for Summer and Winter,” the last film in his acclaimed Syrian war trilogy that includes “Return to Homs,” a ground-level look at the Syrian civil war which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and “Of Fathers and Sons” , a portrait of a close-knit radical Islamist family which won the same prize at Sundance in 2018 and was nominated for an Academy Award.
The decade-long civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and forced millions into exile. Many Syrian men have set off on dangerous solo journeys to Europe, where they hope to establish a foothold before sending for their wives and families. That has left a disproportionate number of women behind to rebuild the country, with roughly 70% of Syria’s population today comprised of women, said the director.
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