
Mapping Lessons
Mapping Lessons
A Documentary film released in 2020, Mapping Lessons runs 1h 1m and comes from Egypt. Soap2Day lists it with Philip Rizk directing and Farah Barqawi and Aylin Çankaya in the cast. It holds 8/10 from 1 vote. Through the diary entries of the film's main protagonist K., we learn about her return from post-revolutionary Russia to her home in Greater Syria, in which, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, individual communities are trying to find a way to autonomy. Thanks to the juxtaposition with the Russian past, presented through shots from Soviet film classics such as Esfir Shub's Spain or Kinoglaz by Dziga Vertov, and the Syrian present, portrayed through various mobile phone footage, the director draws parallels between two incompatible realities and creates a multimedia essay on neo-colonialism and independence.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Egypt, Germany
- Director: Philip Rizk
- Cast: Farah Barqawi, Aylin Çankaya, Walid, Saeed al-Wakeel, Matthieu Rey, Osama al-Hossein

















