In May 2012 director Iara Lee with cinematographer Saider Habah journeyed to Turkish refugee camps for those fleeing from Syria. These camps have since then only continued to grow.  Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, NATO’s toppling of Moammar Qaddafi in Libya, and the complicated politics of the region, this film seeks to explore the Syrian conflict through the humanity of the civilians who have been killed, abused, and displaced to the squalor of refugee camps. In all such conflicts, large and small, it is civilians—women and children, families and whole communities—who suffer at the leisure of those in power. While focusing on the plight of those caught in the crossfire of the hegemons, we seek to unravel the conflict by exploring the motivations of its actors—the Ba’athist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Free Syrian Army and other geopolitical players like the United States, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, the Gulf countries… When elephants go to war, it is the grass that suffers. This is a film about the elephants, but made for the grasses.

If you want to understand the events unravelling in Syria and to discuss the role of non-violence in the face of war then please come and join us for the discussion in conjunction with the Canny Little Library, Oxfam and Cultures of Resistance.

Screening free but we will take donations for the Oxfam Syria Crisis Appeal.

For more information see

http://www.culturesofresistance.org/sg-action