Amel Alzakout

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Amel Alzakout, born 1988 in Syria, is an artist, puppet maker and filmmaker based in Leipzig. Between 2010 and 2013 she studied Journalism at Cairo University (Egypt). Between 2017 and 2018 she studied art at Weißensee Art Academy in Berlin.

01-01-1988

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Total Films

Also known as (female)

Syria

Place of Birth

01-01-1988

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (female)

Syria

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

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Creative career

actor

1 Works

producer

0 Works

director

4 Works

writer

1 Works

other

2 Works

Purple Sea

Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their lifejackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.

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Year:

2021