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The Gates of Damascus

Type: Short
Released: 2005
Length: 25 min.
Directed by: Mark Boulos

Crew

Producer Mark Boulos

Photography Robin Fox

Editor Anna Dick

Sound Adele Fletcher

Production Company National Film and Televison School

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Shown in festivals

Synopsis:

Myrna Nazzour, a Syrian housewife and mother, claims to bear the stigmata wounds of Christ's crucifixion, as well as having ecstatic visions of Jesus and Mary. The film follows her re-enactment of the Passion story. During the Easter weekend, her body becomes a display and her home turns into a holy place. Every year large numbers of pilgrims, doctors and journalists go to her house to witness the miracle, and listen to Myrna's revelations.

Awards

Bloomberg New Contemporaries Exhibition
Royal Anthropological Institute - Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize
Beirut International Documentary Festival

Synopsis:
Myrna Nazzour, a Syrian housewife and mother, claims to bear the stigmata wounds of Christ's crucifixion, as well as having ecstatic visions of Jesus and Mary. The film follows her re-enactment of the Passion story. During the Easter weekend, her body becomes a display and her home turns into a holy place. Every year large numbers of pilgrims, doctors and journalists go to her house to witness the miracle, and listen to Myrna's revelations.
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