Obscure
2017, AR. Directed by Soudade Kaadan.
Six-year-old Ahmad doesn’t want to remember that he is Syrian. He recently lost his older brother to the war in Syria, and now lives with his family in a Lebanese refugee camp. Traumatised, overwhelmed, disengaged, he prefers to be silent. Director Soudade Kaadan’s patient observation accompanies Ahmad, as he recovers a sense of childhood lightness despite his grief. Amid endless images of violence, the film poses a question about the future, and in Kaadan’s words, “explores the impossibility to verbally express what is happening in Syria now.”
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- AR
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Obscure is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India.
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- Released
- 1 January 2017
- Country
- Lebanon
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Obscure runs 75 minutes (1h 15m).
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Obscure is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Obscure?
Obscure (2017) was directed by Soudade Kaadan.