Syria’s Prisons Exposed : Tadmor : A special event in collaboration with MENA PRISON FORUM

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The MENA Prison Forum is an interdisciplinary initiative. Launched in 2018, it is dedicated to researching prison culture in the MENA region. The project engages a collaborative international network that includes former prisoners, filmmakers, academics and activists from various countries to address carcerality around the region. Together with ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin, medico international, and UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R), the MPF is presenting a special event in HAU with a focus on Syria. 

With the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, images of freed detainees from Syria’s gruesome prisons flooded our screens. The present moment is a crucial one to shed the light on the inner workings of this intricate system and to explore the traumatic experiences of those who were held and tortured by it.

The event will feature the screening of Tadmor by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim followed by a film talk with co-director Monika Borgmann and one of the film’s protagonists, former detainee Ali Abu Dehen. 

In cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.