Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they have to hold on to. ‘Ayouni’ is a deeply resonant Arabic term of endearment - meaning ‘my eyes’ and understood as ‘my love’. Filmed over 6 years and across multiple countries in search of answers, Ayouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible.
تبحث نورا وماكي عن إجابات بشأن أحبائهما - باسل صفدي وباولو دالوليو، وهما من بين أكثر من 100000 شخص اختفوا قسرًا في سوريا. وفي مواجهة تيه غياب المعلومات الساحق، يكون الأمل هو الشيء الوحيد الذي يجب عليهما التمسك به. " Ayouni" مصطلح عربي معبر جدًا -يعني "عيوني" ويُفهم على أنه "حبي". صُوّر الفيلم على مدى 6 سنوات في العديد من البلدان بحثًا عن إجابات. فيلم عيوني محاولة لإعطاء الأرقام وجوهًا، ولإعطاء الصمت صوتًا، ولجعل اللامرئي مرئيًا على نحو لا يمكن تجاهله
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“Ayouni” takes its title from the Arabic word “my eyes,” which is both a term of endearment and in this case also a reference to the burden of bearing witness when the rest of the world has turned its eyes away.
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Participated in 2019 Impact Lab in Beirut, Lebanon, organized by Beirut DC under Good Pitch بالعربي