Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts presents Our Terrible Country (2014, 85 minutes, Syria/Lebanon), a film by Mohammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsi at Ashkal Alwan on Thursday 23 October 2014 at 8pm

This road movie portrays on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile in Turkey

For more information please visit: http://ashkalalwan.org/events/our-terrible-country/