SAMIRA AL-KHALIL PRIZE 2023 AWARD
Invitation to the Samira al-Khalil Prize 2023 award ceremony
Dear friends,
We are pleased to invite you to the first edition of the Samira al-Khalil Prize.
The award ceremony will take place on Saturday 11 March 2023 in Saint-Denis, France, in connection with the festival "Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient".
Address : Cinéma L'Ecran, 14 Passage de l'Aqueduc, 93200 Saint-Denis, France
Date and time: Saturday 11 March 2023, from 3pm to 6pm
The ceremony will be accompanied by the screening of the winner's film.
Free reservation and updates:
https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/546275814667
Samira al-Khalil is a human rights defender who has been missing since 9 December 2013 in Syria. In her honour, the Samira al-Khalil Prize rewards, once a year, a woman whose path is part of the struggle for the respect of fundamental rights and freedoms in the Arab or Mediterranean regions. For its first edition, the Prize will be awarded to a woman film director. Her film will be presented at the L’Ecran cinema in Saint-Denis, France, in the presence of the Prize jury and the board of the Samira al-Khalil Association.
Samira al-Khalil is a Syrian activist and a former political prisoner. She was abducted with her friends Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, and Nazim Hammadi by an Islamist military faction in Douma in December 2013. The revolutionary Douma Four were working on documenting violations and crimes commited by the Assad regime and other violators. Unfortunately, the fate of the Douma Four is still unknown.
Samira al-Khalil Association is a Paris-based organization that grants a yearly award to a woman from the Arab and Mediterranean regions. The aim of the association is to keep Samira’s story and struggles alive and empower women active in the fields of art, literature, and defense of justice and human rights.
EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2, 2022 – PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK AND THE ASSOCIATION IN PARIS
FEBRUARY 25, 2022 – OFFICIAL RELEASE OF “JOURNAL D’UNE ASSIÉGÉE – DOUMA, SYRIE”
