The Akram Tree (2011)
1h 21m
Running Time
January 20, 2011Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Francesco Cabras
Director / Writer / Director of Photography / Editor / Sound Editor

Alberto Molinari
Director / Director of Photography / Editor / Sound Editor

Isadora Papadrakakis
Idea / Associate Producer

Rola Shamas
Idea / Producer

Akram Khan
Actor

Toufic Traboulsi
Producer

Bassam Abd Alsattar
Music

Manjunath Chandramouli
Music

Lucy Railton
Self

Faheem Mazar
Music

Sanju Sahai
Music

Ahmad Shamma
Music

Yoshie Sunahata
Music

Francesco G. Raganato
Second Unit Director

Sam Kashefi
Sound Mixer
