by Joshua Polanski
Saudi Arabia’s selection for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards and the first feature film centering on the Black-Saudi community of Riyadh, “The Tambour of Retribution” already has an impressive resume. Abdulaziz Alshlahei’s second feature film also took home two awards at the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival: The Special Jury Award and Faisal Al Dokhy won Best Acting Performance Award for his performance as Daiel. All of this to say, “The Tambour of Retribution” is certainly worth your time.
Alshlahei’s production can be described as a Romeo and Juliet style romance. The potential couple finds themselves unable to marry because of their career paths, which are culturally incompatible in the Kingdom of the late 1990s. Daiel might follow in his father’s footsteps to be a “swordsman,” a euphemism for state executioner; Shama’s (Adwa Aldkhil) dream is to be a wedding designer,...
Saudi Arabia’s selection for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards and the first feature film centering on the Black-Saudi community of Riyadh, “The Tambour of Retribution” already has an impressive resume. Abdulaziz Alshlahei’s second feature film also took home two awards at the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival: The Special Jury Award and Faisal Al Dokhy won Best Acting Performance Award for his performance as Daiel. All of this to say, “The Tambour of Retribution” is certainly worth your time.
Alshlahei’s production can be described as a Romeo and Juliet style romance. The potential couple finds themselves unable to marry because of their career paths, which are culturally incompatible in the Kingdom of the late 1990s. Daiel might follow in his father’s footsteps to be a “swordsman,” a euphemism for state executioner; Shama’s (Adwa Aldkhil) dream is to be a wedding designer,...
- 12/18/2021
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Every year since its creation in 1956, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) invites the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue and that was released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. The shortlist of fifteen finalists is scheduled to be announced on 21 December 2021. The final five nominees are scheduled to be announced on 8 February 2022.
Here are the Asian Submissions for Best International Feature Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.
Armenia
“Should the Wind Drop” by Nora Martirosyan
Azerbaijan
“The Island Within” by Ru Hasanov
Bangladesh
“Rehana” by Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Bhutan
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom...
Here are the Asian Submissions for Best International Feature Film. There are some excellent movies in this bunch and we have seen and reviewed already some of them.
Armenia
“Should the Wind Drop” by Nora Martirosyan
Azerbaijan
“The Island Within” by Ru Hasanov
Bangladesh
“Rehana” by Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Bhutan
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom...
- 11/28/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The first fiction film to be set amongst the working-class Black Saudi community of Riyadh, this social issues drama, released by Netflix and chosen as the Kingdom’s international feature submission, is more fascinating for the cultural differences it reveals than any felicities of filmmaking. Taking place at the end of the 1990s, the rather ominously titled “The Tambour of Retribution,” is the second feature directed by Abdulaziz Alshelahi (“Zero Distance”). It focuses on the barriers to a love match between the son of an executioner and the daughter of a wedding musician, whose society leaves them with more indebtedness to their families than free will.
Twentysomething Dayel is supported by his uncle Atiq (Mohaned Alsaleh), a swordsman who works as a government executioner. This occupation is also the legacy of Dayel’s late father, but the job doesn’t appeal to his son. These days, the lovestruck Dayel is pretty much at loose ends.
Twentysomething Dayel is supported by his uncle Atiq (Mohaned Alsaleh), a swordsman who works as a government executioner. This occupation is also the legacy of Dayel’s late father, but the job doesn’t appeal to his son. These days, the lovestruck Dayel is pretty much at loose ends.
- 11/23/2021
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
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