Film: Sadaa Sound Syndicate present: Sawt Syria
Sawt Syria is an essay film in two parts exploring the inner-worlds of the Syrian underground 
music scene both within Syria and amongst its exilic diaspora in Europe. The film is a meditation on the Syrian condition forged in over a decade of still ongoing war and dispersion, of the abjection and joy that shape that condition and the place of music in reckoning and striving for life. It explores electronic music-making and the dance floor as a connector and forger of a singular Syrian experience, as well as a marker and tool for musicians and audiences to mount a politics of difference: from the Syrian state, from previous generations, and, increasingly, from fellow Syrians living markedly different lives in various regions of the Levant, in camps across the Middle East, and in exile across Europe.