Link to the original article from here   Late in the summer of 2018, the offices of Bidayyat – a five-year-old organization supporting artists and filmmakers from Syria – were being pulled in opposite directions. About half a dozen people were working in a warren of rooms located on the top floor of an unassuming apartment building in the Beirut neighbourhood...  more

Link to the original article: https://quinlan.it/2018/09/05/still-recording/     Guerra e cinema, mirino e obiettivo, to shoot. Diretto da Saeed Al Batal e da Ghiath Ayoub, Still Recording è allo stesso tempo un saggio di teoria cinematografica e una scioccante inchiesta sul conflitto siriano. In concorso alla Settimana Internazionale della Critica, tra i titoli più importanti...  more

  In an increasingly appalling atmosphere of political stagnation, failed negotiations, and yet another ceasefire that won’t last, there is at least some good news coming out from Syria these days. A new wave of talented filmmakers is silently but powerfully emerging in the midst of a social media-driven compulsion to...  more

    ‘Yaman’ c’est le nouveau court-métrage saisissant des artistes syriens du collectif Maajooneh qui a pu être réalisé grâce notamment au soutien de l’ONG Bidayyat. Ce film est donc l’œuvre d’artistes exilés depuis quelques années, au Liban et en Turquie, qui racontent par leur art l’anéantissement progressif de toute forme d’innocence...  more

  THE caption included in the closing credits brings you up short and reminds you just how perilous life is in Syria. During the four months it took to make the short film, ‘Siege’, one film-maker lost his father to a sniper from the Assad regime. Another was almost kidnapped, and a...  more

  Eine wiederkehrende Erzählweise in den Dokumentarfilmen mehrerer Sektionen: Menschen, die ihre eigenen Flucht- und Migrationsgeschichten filmen. In „Les Sauteurs“ (Forum) dokumentiert Abou Bakar Sidibé aus Mali, wie er versucht den Zaun zwischen Marokko und der spanischen Exklave Melilla zu überqueren – mit der Kamera, die ihm zwei europäische Dokumentarfilmer gegeben...  more