Screen/Society--Middle East Film Series: "Arts of the Revolution"--"Ladder to Damascus" [Blu-Ray]
Film Screening:
Ladder to Damascus
(Mohamed Malas, 2013, 95 min, Syria, in Arabic w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray)
-- Introduced by Prof. miriam cooke (AMES)!
Ghalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a girl who drowned the day she was born. Haunted by Zeina's past life, Ghalia travels to Damascus to study acting and understand her present condition. She meets Fouad an aspiring filmmaker who becomes fascinated by Ghalia's duality. He takes her under his wing and helps her find a place to live in a Damascene house, now converted into a dorm inhabited by young Syrians from different regions. Within the confines of the house and its ancient courtyard, Fouad's love for Ghalia and Zeina blossoms while the tumultuous events in Syria start unfolding in the streets around them gradually encroaches on their idyllic isolation
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Sponsors: The Duke University Middle East Studies Center, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). This event is part of the Arts of the Revolution series with funding from the Mellon Foundation.