Join Woodbine this Sunday at 5:30pm for a screening of Alexis Daloumis' 2023 film Belki Sibe: A Journey Through the Syrian War and the Rojava Revolution. The film will be presented by Guy, a veteran of the YPG (People’s Protection Units) and volunteer with TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society).

"Belki Sibe is a volunteer soldier's film -- an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan, NE Syria. It follows the advance and victory of the Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS, and includes the story of the International Freedom Battalion, where the director was primarily deployed. The film depicts the military life and battles on the front-lines, as well as the civil life and the social transformation attempted by the Autonomous Administration. In both fields, the role of women's liberation and empowerment is prominent.

Belki Sibe follows a timeline from the July 2016 battle of Manbij until the liberation of Raqqa and demise of the Islamic Caliphate at the end of 2017, with flash forward updates from late 2021. There is no main character that drives the narrative -- there are a plurality of voices from a multitude of places that merge to form a collective synthesis of collective narrative."

Alexis Daloumis is a filmmaker and journalist of British and Greek citizenship, born in London but raised and based in Athens. Primarily orientated towards social movements, environmental issues, and conflict zones, he studied film and new media at Westminster University, and Theatre Studies at the University of Athens.