The Akram Tree

Synopsis

The Akram Tree is a journey through the personal and professional world of the british-bangladeshi coreographer and dancer Akram Khan. My intelligence is in my body says Akram himself, a body built by acute observations of the reality, legends, and unceasing work here well represented by Gnosis, a pièce realized in collaboration with seven artists expressely discovered in different parts of the world. These traditions and experimentations from India, Japan, Pakistan, England, Egypt, Iraq and Bangladesh collaborate together to create a work between classic indian kathak and contemporary dance. The film portrays the story of this peculiar human and artistic adventure often transcending the narration for the sake of a more visionary look influenced by the location where the documentary has been shot: the futuristic and conflictive city of Abu Dhabi with its desertic and metaphysical surroundings.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Francesco Cabras Alberto Molinari
	Second Unit Director	Francesco G. Raganato
Writing	Writer	Francesco Cabras
	Idea	Isadora Papadrakakis Rola Shamas
Production	Associate Producer	Isadora Papadrakakis
	Producer	Rola Shamas Toufic Traboulsi
Sound	Music	Bassam Abd Alsattar Manjunath Chandramouli Faheem Mazar Sanju Sahai Ahmad Shamma Yoshie Sunahata
	Sound Editor	Francesco Cabras Alberto Molinari
	Sound Mixer	Sam Kashefi
Camera	Director of Photography	Francesco Cabras Alberto Molinari
	Camera Operator	Marco Gandolfo
Editing	Editor	Alberto Molinari Francesco Cabras
	Additional Editing	Marco Gandolfo
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