Latakia-SANA
Over the course of two days, ten films were shown at Dar Al-Assad for Culture in Lattakia, the work of young people from Tartous and Lattakia governorates, as part of the Life Cinema project.
The project, which lasted for a year, was held in cooperation between the Directorate of Latakia Culture and the United Nations Development Program and included 43 young men and women from the two governorates who underwent theoretical and practical workshops that included the stages of film-making, starting from the idea and text to photography, editing, sound and directing, under the supervision and follow-up of specialists in this field.
The project aims, according to its owner, Fadi Rahmoun, to shed light on the interests and hobbies of young people, to refine and develop them in an academic way, to give them the necessary tools for making films, and to focus on their content in social issues to know the extent of their impact on society and work to give them greater attention.
For his part, Iyad Junaidi, coordinator of the Community Cohesion Department in the United Nations Development Program office in the coastal region, pointed out that the project is directed at young people with attention to their talents and linking them to societal issues and phenomena, especially those that emerged after the war through cinema that is able to carry ideas and deliver them to the recipient in an indirect way.
Junaidy indicated that the films shown are entirely student ones, starting with the idea, text, photography, acting, montage, and others, hoping that the students will adopt them as a first step and help in launching this field.
Sami Farah, a civil engineering student at Tishreen University, one of the participants in the project, for which a film was written and directed by him, entitled Light and Dust. The same they worked together as an integrated team.
Dentist Rose Ibrahim, who has been working in the field of photography for a long time, and cinema is one of her areas of interest. The project produced for her the documentary film “The River of Secrets” through which she discussed 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 She referred to the cinemas in highlighting the issues of society as a beginning to lay hands on the problem and search for solutions to it.
Fatima Nasser