Films
Screening date : 30-11-2013 -- 18:00
A Cinema of Discontent
This film explores Iranian censorship codes featuring interviews with 12 Iranian filmmakers, including Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi and Oscar-winning Asghar Farhadi.
Screening date : 03-12-2013 -- 20:30
A Deep Long Breath (Nafass Taweel)
A chronicle of the daily life of an Egyptian family throughout the post revolution months during which our characters attempt to measure the significance of the events that keep jostling in order to grasp their repercussions both on the personal and collective levels.
Screening date : 02-12-2013 -- 20:30
A Mille lieues de la revolution (A Thousand Miles from the Revolution)
Imad left Damascus to settle in Montreal in 1984. Since then, he divides his time unequally between his work as a taxi driver, his family, and his immoderate consumption of media coverage of the Syrian revolution…
Screening date : 29 /11 /2013 -- 20:30
A World Not Ours
Portrait of three generations exiled in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh in Lebanon, hastily built in 1948. It now houses 70,000 refugees in one square kilometer.
Screening date : 01-12-2013 -- 14:00
Apples of the Golan
Before the Six Day War of 1967, the village of Majdal Shams was one of 139 in the region. All but five were destroyed. Over 130,000 Syrian Arabs were forced from their homes never to return.