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