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District Zero - film premiere and discussion

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Cost: £5

British and Irish premier of District Zero documentary and panel discussion, part of Belfast Film Festival.

Tickets £5 from https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/district-zero
Maamun opens the door to his shop, like he does every other morning. It is a tiny white container. Thousands of containers stretch as far as the eye can see, all of them exactly the same.

We are in one of the biggest refugee camps in the world: Zaatari, in Jordan. His shop repairs mobile phones. Maamun rebuilds photos and sound, recovers lost content, recharges batteries, and restores the only link his neighbours still have with Syria. We discover that no-one wants to print off photos of the war; there is much more to the refugees’ se...nse of identity  than that. They want to remember, they want to emphasise their Syrian identity, their identity as individual people.

The District Zero film is part of the ‘EUsaveLIVES - You Save Lives’ campaign by Oxfam and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) to raise awareness on the lives of almost 60 million refugees and displaced people worldwide and the vitally important role humanitarian aid has in their lives.

This screening will be followed by a short panel discussion on situation in Syria and its human impact with Prof Monica McWilliams, Colm Byrne (Humanitarian Manager with Oxfam Ireland) and a member of Northern Ireland's refugee community.

View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5-Pgh2mCQ
and film website at www.districtzero.org
A coproduction by
ARENA COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL and TXALAP.ART


With support of
OXFAM and EUROPEAN COMMISSION


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Location

Belfast MAC
10 Exchange Street West
Belfast
BT1 2NJ
United Kingdom

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Christine McCartney