Ouroboros
2017, Arabic. Directed by Basma Alsharif.
Death as birth, history as the present, the end as the beginning.
This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Arabic
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- Released
- 29 April 2017
- Country
- Belgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Qatar
- Written by
- Basma Alsharif
- Budget
- $232K
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Ouroboros runs 74 minutes (1h 14m).
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Ouroboros isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 April 2017. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
What movies are like Ouroboros?
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Who directed Ouroboros?
Ouroboros (2017) was directed by Basma Alsharif and stars Neemah Abu Ghenas, Jessica Bellinger, Coleman Collins.