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Directed by | Feras Fayyad |
Written by | Alisar Hasan Feras Fayyad |
Produced by | Sigrid Dyekjær Kirstine Barfod |
Starring | Amani Ballour |
Cinematography | Muhammed Khair Al Shami Ammar Sulaiman Mohammad Eyad Samer Qweder |
Edited by | Denniz Göl Bertelsen Per K. Kirkegaard |
Music by | Matthew Herbert |
Production companies | Danish Documentary Production Hecat Studio |
Distributed by | National Geographic Documentary Films (United States) |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Countries | Denmark Syria |
Languages | Arabic English |
Box office | $191,703[1][2] |
The Cave (Arabic: الكهف) is a 2019 Syrian-Danish documentary film directed by Feras Fayyad and written by Fayyad and Alisar Hasan.[3] A companion piece to his earlier film Last Men in Aleppo,[4] the film profiles Dr. Amani Ballour, a physician in Ghouta who is operating a makeshift hospital nicknamed "the Cave" during the Syrian Civil War.[5] The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 5, 2019.