12 min
Abo Ghabi
Short Documentary
2015 - Syria
North American Premiere

The place is Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp, the present is a siege of over 450 days, and the music—unlike water and electricity–keeps flowing unstoppably from Ayham Ahmad’s battered upright piano. Rather than surrendering to despair, the composer and pianist turns music into a survival tool, serenading the rubble-strewn streets of his hometown with the help of local singers who belt out original songs from the middle of intersections.

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