During Revolution

(Fi al-thawra)

In Conversation

  • Charif Kiwan is a founding member of the anonymous video collective Abounaddara.

    Abounaddara (“the man with the movie camera”) is a Syrian filmmakers’ collective that has been working anonymously since its founding in Damascus in 2010.

  • Stefania Pandolfo is Professor of Anthropology, and is in the Medical Anthropology Program and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley.

  • Anneka Lenssen is Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley.

Made over a period of seven years by Maya Khoury and produced by Abounaddara, During Revolution is an intimate account of times of hope, struggle, and loss, where the inner life of the characters is intertwined with the struggle of a collectivity in revolution and then war. It was conceived, in the words of producer Charif Kiwan, as “a way to resist the traditional narrative that reduces the revolution to one single place, Syria; one single political project, democracy against Islamism, or democracy against dictatorship; or one single figure, the hero, the good guy.” Of the many filmed records of the Syrian Civil War, During Revolution is distinguished by its sense of chaos and uncertainty, as well as its candid depiction of a revolutionary movement bitterly splintering into competing factions.

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FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Arabic
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 144 mins
Source
  • Abounaddara

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