Still Recording

The award-winning documentary Still Recording by Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub will be screened in Arabiske Filmdager 2019. On Saturday, March 23, Arabiske Filmdager, Norsk PEN and SPACE organize a panel discussion after the screening; for more details, please see the Facebook event. This film is an observation of what happened for us, for…

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The Silence of Others – No Peace without Justice

In collaboration with HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival and Nobel Peace Center The Silence of Others A shocking history about how the lack of justice after the dictatorship of Franco’s regime in Spain has forced hundreds of thousands of victims and their families to stay silent about their suffering, even today. A turning point came…

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Privacy of Wounds

Hasan, Mazen, and Khaldoon are former prisoners of conscience from some of Syria’s most notorious prisons. Convinced that the three strangers will communicate openly and honestly with each other, the director observes them from the outside of a simulated prison cell in Oslo, using three remote-controlled cameras. Despite the horrors they experienced in captivity in…

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SPACE at HUMAN film festival 2019

For the fifth year in a row, SPACE partners with the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival offering you a fine selection of documentaries and debates to discuss and reflect on Syria through Syrian experiences. This year, we will set the focus on the plight of Syrian detainees and forcibly disappeared. Through two documentaries and following panels with distinguished Syrian and…

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Mapping Home – Oslo World Workshop

Maps have been extensively used to tell stories and to show how the stories relate to a place. Equally, narratives have contributed to the shaping and production of a place. How do we make sense of a place that we no longer can visit? What places do we remember and long for? What narratives live…

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Freedom to Remember/Create – Oslo World Seminars

Syrian artists Khaled Barakeh and Diala Brisly will discuss their artistic practices and processes, what it means to create within contexts of oppression and exile; physically dispersed yet under a shared collective experience. They will also discuss contemporary artistic expression by other Syrian artists in the Middle East, across the diaspora and from those who…

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Concert with Simona Abdallah

SPACE and Mela invite you to a special concert with the internationally-acclaimed percussionist Simona Abdallah concluding The Question of Syria – Doomed by Hope conference. Simona plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She fuses her ancestral Arabic rhythms with House, Electronica and World music. The Darbuka is considered solely a masculine instrument,…

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The Question of Syria – Doomed by Hope

For the fourth year in a row, SPACE welcomes you to the annual conference The Question of Syria. During two days of talks, panel discussions and short film screenings, activists, academics, artists and writers will share their reflections on everyday hope as practiced and lived by ordinary people with focus on Syrians and Palestinians. The…

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