Ten films by young Syrian students screened within the “Life Cinema” project

Within ” the life Cinema” project, ten movies by  young students  from Tartous and Lattakia governorates  were screened  for two days at Dar Al-Assad for Culture in Lattakia.

The project, which lasted for a year, was held in cooperation between Lattakia’s  Directorate of Culture and the United Nations Development Program  ( UNDP) and  included 43 young men and women from the two governorates who joined  theoretical and practical workshops .

These workshops  included the stages of film-making, starting from the idea and text to photography, editing, sound and directing  under the supervision  of specialists in this field.

The project aims, according to its coordinator Fadi Rahmoun, to highlight and develop  the interests and hobbies of young people  academically, provide  them with the necessary tools for filmmaking and focus on their content concerning  social issues to know the extent of the films’ impact on society and work to give social issues  greater attention.

For his part, Iyad Junaidi, coordinator of the Community Cohesion Department at the UNDP  office in the coastal region, pointed out that the project is directed to  young people with talents and tries to  link them to societal issues and phenomena, especially those that emerged after the war through cinema that is able to address ideas  to the recipient in an indirect way.

Junaidy stressed  that the films screened  are produced entirely by students, starting with the idea, text, photography, acting, montage and others, hoping that the students will adopt them as a first step to launch in  this field.

 Sami Farah , who is a student at the  civil engineering faculty in Tishreen university participated in the project through writing and directing the film titled “ Light and Dust “ .

He  noted the importance of this initiative, which brought him back to his passion for cinema and consolidated his  self-confidence in presenting and embodying his ideas, as well as allowing him  to meet  a large group of young  people who share the same interest in cinema and  worked together as an integrated team.

The  project produced by dentist Rose Ibrahim, who has been working in the field of photography for a long time,with  cinema being one of her top  interests, is the documentary  movie  “The River of Secrets,”.

Dr. Ibrahim  discussed through the movie the issue of women’s inheritance in rural areas and reviewed real stories of women from the countryside of Lattakia who spoke  with full transparency about  their experiences in this field ,  pointing  to the  cinema’s  role in highlighting community issues as a first step to find solutions.

Rawaa Ghanam