Personal Duty by Mahmoud Darwish
http://vimeo.com/32009181
Talal Khoury’s dramatization of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish won a Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Dubai International Film Festival. In the Vimeo description, he writes:
The film is an illustration of a poem by Mahmoud Darwish, who focuses on the tragic side of the human personality of a martyr.
It is a visual journey that combines the public experience and the personal one and follows a couple separated by a death called “heroic”.
It is a tribute to Arabic poetry through the combination of the cinematography and music with the music within the poem.
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.