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In Fields of Words: Conversations with Samar Yazbek (12*)

Syrian Arts and Culture Festival 2023

A hand grasps a microfilm

Author Samar Yazbek and filmmaker Rania Stephan interrogate the relationship between language and cinema as tools to represent realities of war and violence.

This film-conversation between author, Samar Yazbek, and filmmaker, Rania Stephan, questions the relationship between language and cinema as tools to represent realities of war and violence. Speaking from Yazbek's exiled home in France, audiences witness the limits and opportunities words can offer in realising, expressing and subverting violence of such destructive magnitude.

Ten years in the making, the film unfolds through vignettes and dialogue, and the result is a poignant and timeless reflection on violence and representation, as well as our capacity to listen, interpret and understand.

dir. Rania Stephan | Lebanon | 2022 | 70’

Content Warning: Contains references to state violence.

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