Short Syrian Documentaries 2
IFFR is offering a home-in-exile to the Visual Arts Festival Damascus, since it cannot take place in Syria this year.
Since the middle of the past decade, Syrian filmmakers have been making increasing use of new digital media. This has opened up hitherto unknown possibilities, also for young emerging filmmakers. An independent film scene has emerged, strongly inspired by former generations of auteur filmmakers.
In this combined programme
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Before Vanishing
The Barada is the main river in Damascus. Once it was the city’s lifeblood which provided riches, but nothing now remains of that illustrious past.
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They Were Here
Homage to the old steam engine plant of Damascus, once a symbol of optimistic belief in development, but now a deserted and desolate place.
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The Right Side of That Road
A thoughtful reflection on the working class district of the Old City of Damascus and the relations between the people and the built environment.
City of Emptiness
A searching look back to another time and another place, filled with emptiness and void, where escape seems the sole solution.
Silence
Silence is an emotional investigation of sense and senselessness in the conflict over the occupied Golan Heights and the events leading to its loss
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Dress Rehearsal for Utopia
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Crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema
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In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution.