"الوحش" يفتح ملفات العنف الأسري
المصدر: دبي ـ غسان خروب
التاريخ: 18 يونيو 2021
على العنف الأسري، يفتح المخرج الإماراتي عبد الرحمن المدني عينه، ليقلب عبر مشاهد فيلمه الجديد "الوحش" بين أوراق ملفات اجتماعية "دسمة"، طارقاً أبواب قضية مهمة.
وها هو المدني يمضي في فيلمه الجديد، كاشفاً عن انتهاءه من مونتاج الفيلم القصير الذي تتمدد مشاهده على نحو 27 دقيقة، وفق ما أفاد به لـ "البيان"، ليأتي هذا العمل ضمن اهتمامات المدني بالقضايا الاجتماعية، والتي طرق أبوابها عبر سلسلة من الأعمال القصيرة، بدأها في 2012 بفيلم "ظاهرة القمبوعة" الذي حاز عنه عدة جوائز في مهرجاني الخليج وأبو ظبي السينمائيين، وواصلها بـ "ذنب" و"نقافة" في 2013 و2014 على التوالي، وكذلك "بشكارة" الذي عرضه في 2015 ضمن فعاليات مهرجان دبي السينمائي الدولي.
"أخيراً انتهيت من العمل على فيلمي القصير "الوحش" والذي استغرق مني سنة من كتابة النص والتصوير والمونتاج"، تعليق نطق به عبد الرحمن المدني عبر حسابه على "انستغرام"، متمنياً بأن ينال فيلمه إعجاب الجميع، واعداً إياهم بعرضه قريباً. في تصريحاته لـ "البيان" أفاد المدني أن الفيلم يتمدد على 27 دقيقة، قائلاً: "الفيلم يسلط الضوء على العنف الأسري، الذي نقدمه من منظور "حصة" الأم الشابة التي تلجأ لوالدتها، إثر تعرضها للعنف على يد زوجها".
“The Monster” opens files on domestic violence
Source: Dubai - Ghassan Kharoub
the date: June 18, 2021
On domestic violence, Emirati director Abdul Rahman Al Madani opens his eyes, flipping through the scenes of his new film “The Beast” among the pages of “dense” social files, knocking on the doors of an important issue.
And now Al-Madani is moving on with his new film, revealing that he has finished editing the short film, whose scenes extend for about 27 minutes, according to what he told Al-Bayan. This work comes within Al-Madani’s interests in social issues, which he has knocked on through a series of short works, He began it in 2012 with the film “The Phenomenon of the Qamboua,” for which he won several awards at the Gulf and Abu Dhabi Film Festivals, and continued it with “Dhaba” and “Nakfa” in 2013 and 2014, respectively, as well as “Bashkara,” which was screened in 2015 at the Dubai International Film Festival.
“I finally finished working on my short film, “The Beast,” which took me a year to write the script, film, and edit,” a comment made by Abdul Rahman Al-Madani on his Instagram account, hoping that his film would be admired by everyone, promising them to show it soon. In his statements to Al-Bayan, Al-Madani stated that the film extends over 27 minutes, saying: “The film sheds light on domestic violence, which we present from the perspective of the ‘share’ of the young mother who seeks refuge with her mother, after being exposed to violence at the hands of her husband.”
Al-Madani said that the filming of “The Beast” took place in the embrace of Dubai, and took 4 days. He added: “I finally finished the editing stage, and began submitting the film to a number of film festivals, with the expectation that it will be officially launched and shown by the end of this year,” explaining that The film's list is full of the names of a number of Emirati stars, including the distinguished artist Hoda Al-Ghanem and the artist Mira Al-Midfa, in addition to the artist Abdullah Al-Humairi.
It is noteworthy that in 2014, Al Madani obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Media Studies from the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai, and a one-year filmmaking diploma from the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi (2015), while his films highlight the extent of his interest in social issues in particular, as he obtained a film production scholarship. The short from the Sharjah Film Platform in 2018.