The Akram Tree (2011)
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.
Directors: Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari.
| Writing | Rola Shamas | Idea |
| Camera | Francesco Cabras | Director of Photography |
| Production | Rola Shamas | Producer |
| Sound | Bassam Abd Alsattar | Music |
| Writing | Francesco Cabras | Writer |
| Sound | Faheem Mazar | Music |
| Editing | Alberto Molinari | Editor |
| Directing | Francesco Cabras | Director |
| Sound | Alberto Molinari | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Manjunath Chandramouli | Music |
| Directing | Francesco G. Raganato | Second Unit Director |
| Sound | Yoshie Sunahata | Music |
| Camera | Marco Gandolfo | Camera Operator |
| Production | Toufic Traboulsi | Producer |
| Production | Isadora Papadrakakis | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Marco Gandolfo | Additional Editing |
| Directing | Alberto Molinari | Director |
| Sound | Francesco Cabras | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Sam Kashefi | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Sanju Sahai | Music |
| Writing | Isadora Papadrakakis | Idea |
| Camera | Alberto Molinari | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Francesco Cabras | Editor |
| Sound | Ahmad Shamma | Music |
