Touring Program - A Retrospective: 30 Years of Syrian Cinema

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Proposal
Programs and Synopses
Biographies
Screening Fees

To find out how to bring the tour to your campus, please contact us at syriantour@arteeast.org or call 718 832 6564.

For more information about the Lens on Syria program, click here: Lens on Syria

Our new publication, Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Contemporary Filmmakers, printed in conjunction with this tour, is now available for purchase from ArteEast through Rattapallax Press at www.rattapallax.com

Lens on Syria: Thirty Years of Contemporary Cinema is a groundbreaking exploration of Syrian cinema touring North America May-September 2006. The program showcases over 30 Syrian feature films, documentaries and shorts, many screening for the first time in the US, several of the films have been digitally remastered and subtitled in English for the series.

Debuting at New York's prestigious Lincoln Center from May 5th-18th 2006, the series has already been scheduled to travel to The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago; The Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa; The Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; The Pacific Film Archives in Berkley (organized in collaboration with The San Francisco Arab Film Festival); The Georgetown University in Washington, DC; and The Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon.

Often described as Arab cinema's “best kept secret”, ArteEast's Syrian cinema series provides an unprecedented opportunity for audiences throughout North America to discover a politically timely and relevant program, ranging from nonfiction films and comedies to political dramas and historical epics, all representative of one of the richest--albeit lesser-known--of world cinemas.