At the forth­com­ing 3^rd Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival DOX BOX in Syria six Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown. Three of them will com­pete for the audience’s award – the only award given in accord­ance with the view­ers’ votes.

At the forth­com­ing 3^rd Inter­na­tional Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival DOX BOX in Syria six Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ar­ies will be shown. Three of them will com­pete for the audience’s award – the only award given in accord­ance with the view­ers’ votes.

DOX BOX is not only a film fest­ival – it is also an event that encom­passes the areas of work of inde­pend­ent authors and insti­tu­tions from the Arabic coun­tries and around the world. The screen­ings of doc­u­ment­ar­ies in Dam­as­cus, debates, meet­ings with authors and diverse pub­lic­a­tions testify to the devel­op­ing struc­ture of the young fest­ival. The viewer plays an import­ant role in its devel­op­ment, so the audience’s award (150,000 Syr­ian pounds – approx­im­ately 3000 USD)is the only award given to the films tak­ing part in the main pro­gramme. Three Pol­ish films will com­pete in the con­test: “The Lucky Ones” by Tomasz Wol­ski, “Mother” by Jakub Piątek and “Six Weeks” by Mar­cin Janos Kraw­czyk.

What is more, in the them­atic extra-​contest pro­gramme ”Men & Women” the fol­low­ing films will be shown: ”A Woman Sought” by Michał Mar­czak and “Till It Hurts” by Mar­cin Kosz­a­łka, and in the pro­gramme “Work­ing Class Goes to Heaven” – ”Our street. Cinema ver­sion ” by Mar­cin Latałło.

This year’s edi­tion DOX BOX will take place from 3^rd to 11^th March.

More inform­a­tion on the festival’s web­site.
  (12.02.2010)