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Queens of Syria

Synopsis

The documentary feature 'Queens of Syria' tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war.
What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War.

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Details

Year: 2014
Type of film: Features
Running time: 70 mins
Director: Yasmin Fedda
Producer: Itab Azzam, Georgina Paget
Executive Producer: William Stirling, Charlotte Eagar, Sawsan Asfari
Editor: Greg Pittard
Screenwriter: Yasmin Fedda
Director of Photography: Yasmin Fedda
Music: Robin Schlochtermeier

Genre

Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Refuge Productions Limited

William Stirling

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