Document Community Screenings

For Document 2017, we have a series of special features screening in venues outside of the city centre – with multi-award winning documentaries including Reber Dosky’s Radio Kobani.

Dilovan, a 20 year old Kurdish woman, sets up a radio station in the devastated town of Kobanî, Syria, during the liberation fight against IS. Dilovan’s programs in which she interviews survivors, returning refugees, fighters and poets, bring a sense of belonging to the broken lives of the listeners who need to rebuild the city and their future. Dilovan tells her own story in a message to the child she may have one day. Shot over a period of three years during war and reconstruction in Kobanî, Radio Kobani is a bitter, intimate and poetic tale of trauma’s, healing, hope and love.

This event is free but ticketed

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of BFI‘s Film Audience Network.

For Document 2017, we have a series of special features screening in venues outside of the city centre – including two multi-award winning documentaries and the UK premiere of Sungeun Kim’s The Memory of the 25th Hour, which chronicles 10 years of community collective action in South Korea.

The Memory of the 25th Hour traces the memories of the villagers’ 10-year-long resistance against the naval base construction in Gangjeong village in Jeju Island, South Korea. Facing yet another police crackdown on the protesters’ encampment at the new military housing complex construction site on January 31, 2015, one of the activists said: “We’re living the 25th hour.” The sustainability of the hour becomes questioned throughout the film, as the day unfolds evoking different moments in the history of the struggle. Exploring the possibility of filmmaking as a means of active memory, this film follows the life of activism after its visible phases.

This event is free but ticketed.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of BFI‘s Film Audience Network.