The cave

Resource Information

The work The cave represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The cave

Statement of responsibility

National Geographic Documentaries presents ; a Danish Documentary production ; In association with SWR-TV 2 Denmark-Doha, Sun Yat-Sen Cultural Foundation-IMS, Doc Up Fund-Normandie for Peace ; In co-production with Ma.Ja.De - Hecat Studio Paris - Madame Films ; a film by Firas Fayyad ; Produced by Kristine Barford, Sigrid Dyekjær; written by Alisar Hasan and Feras Fayyad

Contributor

• National Geographic Partners (U.S.)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Hasan, Alisar
• Fayyāḍ, Firās
• Barford, Kristine
• Dyekjær, Sigrid

Broadcaster

• National Geographic Partners (U.S.)

Distributor

• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Film director

• Fayyāḍ, Firās

Film producer

• Dyekjær, Sigrid
• Barford, Kristine

Production company

• National Geographic Partners (U.S.)

Screenwriter

• Hasan, Alisar
• Fayyāḍ, Firās

Subject

• Foreign films -- Syria
• Historical films
• Motion pictures, Arab
• Nonfiction films
• Sex role in the work environment -- Syria
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films
• Women physicians -- Syria
• Arabic language films
• Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
• Arabic language materials
• Ballour, Amani
• Documentary films
• Foreign films

Genre

• War films
• Nonfiction films
• Motion pictures, Arab
• Historical films
• Foreign films
• Documentary films
• Arabic language materials
• Arabic language films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• ara
• eng
• ara

Summary

From the acclaimed filmmaker Feras Fayyad ('Last Men in Aleppo') comes the powerful film The Cave, Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, and a stirring portraid of courage, resilience and female solidarity. For besieged civilians in wartorn Syria, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their right to work as equals alongside their male counterparts, doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above. Following the team as they contend with daily bombardment, chronic supply shortages and the ever-present threat of chemical attacks, The Cave delivers an unflinching look at the Syrian war and some of its heroic women

Awards note

Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, 2019

Cataloging source

CaOWLBI

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

956.9104/23

Intended audience

• Canadian Home Video Rating: PG
• MPAA rating: PG-13

Language note

• In Arabic with English subtitles
• Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Runtime

107

Target audience

general

Technique

live action