Syria Solidarity Screenings: DOX BOX GLOBAL DAY
***Additonal Film Screening Announced***
Tournesols – Al-Rastan
With a Syrian lens, and in one of the few films released in Syria during the revolution, we visit Al-Rastan; a town in the city of Homs that witnessed military clashes before other cities, and which after the huge brave uprising of its people by the beginning of the Syrian spring, Al-Rastan has been and still is facing a brutal war, against its civilians day & night.
The martyr’s funeral is not only songs and cheering for freedom; there are faces hiding behind the crowds; eyes filled with tears and agony, crying the last good-bye to the son or brother.
The storyteller is anonymous, so is the filmmaker, while the dissident soldier; reveals his identity and speaks with his face uncovered, after seeing death and seeing himself a criminal against his family, and deciding to disobey his commander’s orders.
Directed by: Anonymous
Duration: 25′
Year: 2012
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DOX BOX Global day is an initiative to keep alive an annual film festival in Syria during a year when it is unable to take place in the country.
The first non-profit and open-to-public creative documentary film festival in Syria, DOX BOX started as an initiative of independent filmmakers, back in 2007. It runs annually in Damascus, Tartous and Homs during the first two weeks of March and tours in other Arab cities as part of a Pan-Arab Cultural Network.
The main mission of DOX BOX is to bring together the Arab and international filmmaking community and showcase some of the world’s best creative documentaries in a friendly and dynamic environment.
