''Lamya's Poem'' is a 2021 animated

adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

, directed and written by Alex Kronemer. The film stars

Mena Massoud Mena Mansour Massoud (; born September 17, 1991) is an Egyptian-born Canadian actor. He made his film debut in the 2017 Canadian dramatic thriller '' Ordinary Days''. His breakthrough came with playing the title character in the Disney fantasy f ...

Millie Davis Millie Davis (born December 6, 2006) is a Canadian actress who played Ms. O / Big O in the TVOKids/PBS Kids series ''Odd Squad'', Riley in the Amazon Prime television show '' Dino Dana'', Summer in '' Wonder'', and Gemma Hendrix in ''Orphan Blac ...

and

Faran Tahir Faran Haroon Tahir is an American actor. Tahir made his film debut as Nathoo in Disney's 1994 film ''The Jungle Book''. He went on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in ''Iron Man'' (2008), Captain Robau in ''Star Trek'' (2009), an ...

Premise

The film centres on Lamya, a young Syrian girl who has left her hometown of

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

as a

refugee A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as ...

during the Syrian civil war, who finds solace in her inner fantasy life as she reads and is inspired by the poetry of

Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi '' faqih'' (jurist), Maturidi theologian (''mutakallim''), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire ...

Cast

as Lamya *

as Baha Walad * Aya Bryn as Lamya's Mother *

Raoul Bhaneja Raoul Bhaneja is an English-Canadian actor, musician, writer and producer. Early life and studies Bhaneja was born in Manchester. His father is an Indian Sindhi, and his mother is Irish. A graduate of The National Theatre School of Canad ...

as Mr. Hamadani / Smuggler *

Nissae Isen Nissae Isen (born March 3, 1997) is a Canadian voice actress who has voiced prominent young male characters in several television series, including BG's younger brother George in ''Miss BG'' from 2005 to 2008, Yuri from '' My Big Big Friend'' fr ...

as Bassam

Release

An excerpt from the film was screened at the 2020

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in the Works in Progress stream, before the completed film premiered at Annecy in 2021. WestEnd Films has international distribution rights, while

ICM Partners ICM Partners was a talent and literary agency with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., and London. The company represented clients in the fields of motion pictures, television, music, publishing, live performance, branded e ...

holds North American rights. Freestyle Digital Media acquired the North American DVD and VOD rights and released the film on digital HD online, cable, and satellite platforms on February 21, 2023. On review aggregator

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, ''Lamya's Poem'' has an approval rating of 90% based on 10 reviews with an average rating of 7 out of 10.

References

External links

Official website
* {{IMDb title, 10346674 2021 films 2021 animated films American animated feature films Canadian animated feature films Films about the Syrian civil war 2020s English-language films 2020s Canadian animated films 2020s American animated films Animated films set in the Middle East American animated drama films Canadian animated drama films