Film on Syria as Personification of Events in B&H During the 1990’s

The cultural program of the international theatre festival MESS, Memory Module, will continue today with a screening of the film ‘The Suffering Grasses’, by Korean-Brazilian producer Lare Lee. The film was made in 2012 and follows the competitive impulses among opponents of Assad’s regime at the beginning of the Syrian revolution. While the conditions in the country continually changed and developed, the film serves as an early, intimate view on the Syrian refugee crisis, and highlights important policy debates that are still taking place between groups that oppose the regime. The screening will take place in SARTR starting at 19:30, and entrance for all is free.

‘’It is very important to us that we have a program as part of this year’s Memory Module that shows the problems of Syria, as countries that are currently experiencing what happened to B&H during the 1990’s’’, said artistic director of Memory Module and director of SARTR Nihad Kreševljaković. He added that understanding these conflicts has to be rooted in the people, and that this film is only one effort in that direction.

In the continuation of Memory Module, after the film the theatre program with the play “Koncert sa orahom, čekićem i bašlijom“ directed by Selma Spahić and produced by SARTR and Association Kontakt begins.

More information about the program and other activities can be found on the Facebook page-Memory Module/International Theatre Festival MESS.