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About The Dream of Shahrazad

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Not rated
Year Released:
2014
Format:
2K DCP
Genres:
Documentary, Drama
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Weaving together music, politics, and storytelling, The Dream of Shahrazad explores recent social and political events in Egypt, Turkey, and Lebanon through the metaphor of One Thousand and One Nights and looks at the ways in which creativity and political articulation coincide in response to oppression. Drawing on Shahrazad, a youth orchestra conductor, a Cairo storytelling troupe, a troubled Lebanese actress, and others put art to new political use. In English and Arabic with English subtitles.

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