Name: Sunduq al-dunyâ
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002-05-21
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Caresse Bashar, Zuhair Abdlulkarim, Elias Ghannam

Just what we need, one more made-for-festival art film with portentous photography and elliptical dialogue. In true art flick fashion unseen hands open and close doors, white doves flutter through on cue and dry-ice fog wafts by. 

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