Go ‘Waltzing with Bashir’ - but not in animated form

If you saw "Waltz With Bashir" -- or even if you didn't -- you might want to check out "The Dream" at the PFA (Pacific Film Archive), on the U.C. Berkeley campus, on Tuesday, March 31. 

Made by a Syrian filmmaker and showcasing the stories of Palestinians, it probably offers an interesting (and certainly different) perspective.

Here's the mini-review from the PFA Web site:

The Dream
Mohammad Malas (Syria, 1981)
A touching documentary shot in Sabra and Shatila, Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Malas, a key figure in the Syrian New Wave, interviews the children, women, old people, and militants of the camps, asking them about their dreams. Many participants in the film would be killed just a few months later, in the infamous massacre at the camps led by the Lebanese Phalangist forces.
• (45 mins, In Arabic with English subtitles, Color, Digital video, From ArteEast).

 This 45-minute film precedes a screening of the French documentary "Les annees declic" (65 min.) in which the filmmaker presents himself via photographs and other media over a 20-year-period, 1976-1985.

Mohammad Malas

 On Tuesday, March 31, "The Dream" will begin at 7:30 p.m.  (click for more details)

If you've never been to the PFA, it's a super place to see a film. No popcorn or beverages in the theater, but they've got a tremendous lineup of films and programs (from all eras, genres and corners of the globe). And you always feel as if you're watching your film at an institute for film - which you are! PFA was conceived as an American version of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

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