Orange Flavored Love, Angela Alsouliman (2023)
graduation 2023 film
36 min. 51 sec
Arabisch gesproken met Engelse ondertitels
CAST:
Nawal: Fryal Ahmad Yaseen
Mother: Gamila Faleh Hasan
Um Mahmod: Nidal Ahmad Khedir
Safa: Mountaha Habib
MAIN CREW:
Cinematography and production design: Diren Agbaba
Assistant camera and director: Zaur Kourazov
Gaffers: Hadhal Thakir Hashim and Ryan Shehab Ahmad
Art direction: Willem Jansen
Script and make-up: Kazim Fathi Ishmael
Costuming: Noor Mahdi
Production manager Iraq: Forat Farooq Saleh
Production assistants: Ibraheem Ahmad, Anas Hassan and Willem Jansen
Supervision production Iraq: Suleik Salim Hussein
Editor and title design: Ewin Ryckaert
Sound recording: Yousif Bashar
Boom operator and sound recording: Hasan Taha
Music composer: Milo Paulus
Musicians: Akram ben Romdhane (oud) and Seyedarian Sadrayimousavi (violin)
Foley artist: Flo Van Deuren
Foley mixer: Seppe Roosen
Sound editing: Griet Van Reeth
Sound mixage: Thomas Vertongen
36′ 51″
Spoken language: Arabic with English subtitles
In Mosul, Nawal takes care of her ailing mother Samia. The mother’s condition gets worse as medicine is no longer available in the city. In the few days she has left, Nawal, her mother and their neighbor share small moments of joy. The ladies sing and dance, they use make-up and make scents, they tell jokes and laugh too hard. In the midst of illness, poverty and war, they manage to transform something dire into something joyful, creating beauty where ugliness strikes.
Orange Flavored Love is a sensory fiction drama full of smiles, colors and smells.