Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

As part of the Dreamlands film series, Jalal Maghout’s film screens in Distant Words, a program of two Iranian and Syrian filmmakers living outside their countries addressing their sense of isolation and injustice in hand-drawn animation and montage. The films explore the isolation and loneliness of an outsider visiting his native country as a stranger. In Suleima, an animation documentary, a woman speaks for thousands of anonymous women in Syria through her activism and bravery.

This screening takes place on January 15, 2017. Learn more.