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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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International Competition
Documentary
# 8 |
Saturday, November 25, 2017 / 7 pm
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbonne
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A Memory in Khaki |
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Alfoz Tanjour
Quatar
2016 / 1:48
A Syrian director dusts off memories of the past, when people were
persecuted for their political beliefs. A poetic portrait of people
whose homes have been turned to rubble, and a story that tells us that
a free life can never be monochromatic, let alone khaki.
“I can’t be myself anywhere else,” Alfoz Tanjour says at the beginning
of his heavy narrative on Damascus, the hometown he had to leave years
earlier. He and other Syrians speak about the era before they were
forced to flee the reach of the merciless regime; they dust off
memories of the past when people were persecuted for their political
beliefs. “We were demonstrating to bring down the khaki color.… We
were against the color, in its symbolism,” says one of the
protagonists, Ibrahim, about his 1970s childhood, and about the
militaristic state apparatus that tried to extinguish the least
indication of resistance. The ever-present fear, unexpected outbreaks
of terror, dark prisons – these are the common denominators of the
majority of stories, and they led to revolutionary outbreaks in Syrian
society. A poetic portrait of people whose homes have been turned to
rubble, collected fragments of memory in a film that tells us that
free life can never be monochromatic, let alone khaki. |
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November 23 - December 3, 2017
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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