Rethink Rebuild Society is pleased to invite you to a FREE screening of the documentary:
MASKOON (HAUNTED) (2014)
Followed by a Q&A session with director Liwaa Yazji on Skype from Germany
Runtime: 113 minutes. In Arabic with English subtitles.
Certificate: 15
Where: RR Multi-facility room, Unit 7, Longsight Business Park, Hamilton Road, Manchester, M13 0PD
When: Sunday the 22nd of January 2017 at 18:00pm
Please book your seat for free here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maskoon-haunted-2014-free-film-screening-...
What is a home – in a physical and in a metaphorical sense? And how does one feel when one is forced to leave?
When does one leave? What does one take with him or her and what aspects of life irretrievably end with the departure? How do people call their departure? Are they refugees? From which loss can they protect themselves and how?
THE FILM
“Maskoon” (The Arabic word for “Haunted”) is about the Syrian people’s relationship with their homes during the war. It is a portrait of exile. It captures the experience of displacement and the profound uncertainty in the midst of Syria’s war. When the bombs fell, people escaped, leaving behind not only their homes but also innumerable memories. Maskoon tells of the loss of security and of the meanings that a home has in one’s life. It is about how homes haunt the life of the souls that were living in them, as much as they themselves haunt their homes.
“Through picturing daily life activities such as packing and unpacking suitcases, doing the laundry, or complaining about the loss of a favourite coffee pot, the director strikingly captures the experience of being constantly ready to depart. In Maskoon, Yazji depicts how the individual becomes more and more vulnerable, exhausted, pressured. “Souls are way more important than stones and ruins”, this thought as expressed by one protagonist might leave the recipient himself haunted after the movie finished” (Sarah Schwahn).
LIWAA YAZJI
Liwaa Yazji was born in Moscow in 1977. She is a theatre graduate from Syria. She has acted in September Rain (2009) by Syrian director Abdullatif Abdulhamid and has worked as an assistant director in “Windows of the Soul” (2011). In 2012, she published her first play “Here in the Garden” and in 2014, her poetry book “Peacefully, We Leave Home” was published in Beirut. She also wrote the screenplay of the TV drama series “The Brothers” (2013). “Maskoon” is her first documentary film as a director.
