Latakia - Sana
The audience of Seventh Art in Lattakia watched daily screenings of Syrian films produced in wartime for the General Film Organization, as part of the activities of the first family film festival.
The festival, which is organized by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, as part of the Syrian Family Days campaign, lasts for 3 days and presents two performances daily at the Al-Assad House for Culture and Al-Manara University.
The Director of Social Affairs and Labor in Lattakia, Ammar Ahmed, explained in a statement to SANA's correspondent that the festival is the culmination of the campaign for the Syrian Family Days, which was launched by the ministry and lasted for a whole month.
Ahmed said that the festival dedicates a state of cultural activity and lighting to the role of the family through a group of Syrian films that reflected sacrifice and love for the homeland and the values of heroism, altruism and tolerance in our societies during the war that our country has been exposed to for more than ten years.
For his part, artist Majd Yunus Ahmed said that the idea of holding a film festival and linking it to the effectiveness of family days has great implications for the importance of cultural activity and art in conveying “messages that do not need any passport through the seventh art” ... and their ability to communicate them in depth and better .. Especially through the topics and titles that the participating cinematic films carry, expressing his hope that this event will become a periodic tradition that contributes to deepening the cultural idea and achieving the desired goals and results.
The festival will feature films (Happens in Your Absence) by Seif Al-Din Subaie, (Dam Al-Nakhl) and (Man of the Revolution) by Najdat Anzour, (Solo Music), (The Way of the Bee) by Abdel-Latif Abdel-Hamid and (Damascus Aleppo) by Basil Al-Khatib and (The Morning Star) directed by Joud Saeed.
Fatima Nasser