DIM Cinema Co-Presents
Syrian Cinema: DOX BOX Global Day Vancouver
Curated by Laura Marks
March 14-16, 2012
SFU Woodward’s 149 W. Hastings St.,
Free. Reservations required for March 15 screening* email fay_nass@sfu.ca

This year the Damascus-based Syrian documentary festival DOX BOX has decided not to hold the festival or seek government permits, as a statement against the regime. Instead, Dox Box is circulating films on "DOX BOX Global Day," to engage audiences worldwide with the complex situation in Syria. This program includes rarely seen masterpieces such as Omar Amiralay's A Flood in Baath Country, Nidal Al Dibs's Black Stone, and Oussama Mohamed's Step by Step, as well as works by emerging filmmakers. While world attention is on Syria, these films helps audiences share the experiences of Syrian people and learn about the country’s political, economic and social climates over recent decades. They also express the critical and creative agency of Syrian filmmakers through each film's particular style and sensibility, poetic or acerbic, sharp or tender. These are not only political and social witnesses but rare works of cinema.
March 14 Mowafaghian World Art Centre, second floor
7pm Six Ordinary Stories, Meyar al Roumi, 2007, 61min
        Foam, Reem Ali, 2006, 48min
 
March 15 Screening room 4955 *Reservations Required
6pm Daily Life of a Syrian Village, Omar Amiralay, 1974, 85min

8pm Step by Step, Oussama Mohammed, 1978, 22min
        Silence, Rami Farah, 2006, 37min

March 16 Mowafaghian Cinema
7pm A Flood in Baath Country, Omar Amiralay, 2003, 46min
       Black Stone, Nidal al Dibs, 2006, 62min

Supported by: School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, SFU
Wild Rice, DIM Cinema, Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Reel Causes

Contact: Fay Nass, fay_nass@sfu.ca Laura Marks, lmarks@sfu.ca
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