Film
AYHAM AHMAD – THE PIANIST OF YARMOUK
In the framework of the Beirut Art Film Festival 2018
From 1 to 30 November 2018
With the support of the Goethe-Institut in Lebanon
Director: Günter Atteln and Carmen Belaschk
Editor: Dirk Seliger
Co-Production: ZDF
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2015/16
Duration: 28 min.
Surrounded by ruins in Syria’s capital Damascus, Ayham Ahmad sings accompanied by an out-of-tune piano about migration, hunger, and death. Threatened by Assad’s regime and ISIS, the Piano Man is silenced and must flee – to Germany. The documentary film “Ayham Ahmad – The Pianist Of Yarmouk” tells the story of this Syrian refugee musician. After his arrival in Munich, we follow the life of a man who sang out against the suffering in his country until his instrument was destroyed.
His fate stands for that of thousands – robbed of their hopes and dreams and forced to build a new existence.
More to the festival program: https://www.bafflebanon.org/