TOIO: A Memory in Khaki, Alfoz Tanjour Event

SY/QA/AT, 2016, colour, DCP, OV with English subtitles, 108 minutes

— After the film screening: Alfoz Tanjour in conversation with Michelle Koch

This is the third of four films on the theme of forced exile shown in the context of The Other Is Oneself, every Saturday in November, always 15.00 at Stadtkino Wien.

“Strangely, as soon as I arrived with my family at a modest refugee camp in the heart of Europe, I started to seek refuge in my memories. The memories I had left at our doorstep over there. But the images this time were faint.. fast.. broken.. And they were all in khaki; images of the bitter hideaway years endured by Sanaa in Damascus, the lingering nights that Ibrahim spent in a dark prison, the deep persisting pain suffered by Khalid in exile, and the dream of a free homeland which is all that remains for Shadi..!!”
A Memory in Khaki is a cry out breathe for that which is embattled inside the spirits of individuals who lived under the Syrian oppressive regime. The auteur’s personal narrative is interwoven with those of other Syrian characters who were forced, because of their political beliefs, to leave the country before or after the revolution. The film sheds light on years of silence, fear and terror, and it dives into the stories which were behind the eruption of the Syrian society and the start of its revolution. It is a Syrian account which, by laying out the past, tells the story of the future. (Production note)

This film screening is part of The Other Is Oneself.
Hope to see you also at the other films, every Saturday in November, 15:00 at Stadtkino Wien, and the exhibition and conference at Franz Josefs Kai 3.