Sira
Songs of the
crescent moon a film by Sandra Gysi & Ahmed Abdel Mohsen

Next Screenings

4.-17. Juni 2014, Douz Doc Days, Brave Festival Breslau, Poland

Festivals

Visions du réel, Nyon, Switzerland; International competition (7 – 13 April 2011)

Al Jazeera Film Festival, Doha, Qatar; Nomination "Best Film", Jury prize (21- 24 April 2011)

Hot docs, Toronto, Canada (28 April – 8 May 2011)

Planete Doc Review, Warsaw, Poland (6 – 12 May 2011)

International Film Festival Innsbruck, Austria; Winner Documentary Film Award (31 May – 5 June 2011)

DMZ Documentary Film Festival, Korea (22 – 28 September 2011)

Vancouver International Film Festival IFF, Canada (24 September – 14 October 2011)

DOK Leipzig, Germany (17 – 23 October 2011)

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (25 – 30 October 2011)

The Arabian Sights - presented by the Washington DC International Film Festival, Washington DC, USA (27 October – 6 November 2011)

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark (3 – 13 November 2011)

RIDM - Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada (9 – 20 November 2011)

31th Amiens International Film Festival, France (11 - 19 November 2011)

4th Panorama of the European Film Cairo, Egypt (23 - 29 November 2011)

47. Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland (19 - 26 Januar 2012)

Goethe Institut Cairo, Egypt (25. April 2012)

Summer Festival of the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt (11. July 2012)

Festivaletteratura, Mantova, Italy (5. - 9. September 2012)

Douz Doc Days, Journées du Documentaire de Douz, Tunisia (26.-30. December 2012)

Tripoli Film Festival, Libya (2013)

Douz Doc Days, Brave Festival Breslau, Poland (4.-17. June 2014)

Cinema Release Switzerland 25 August 2011


Premiere in Zurich: Thursday 25 August 2011, 6.30 pm, Cinema RiffRaff, in the presence of the directors and the main characters of the documentary. Then in the daily program.
Brugg: Sa/Su 27 & 28 August 2011, 6 pm Cinema Odeon: Sunday 28.8. in the presence of the directors, Sa/Su 3. & 4. September: screenings according to program.
Premiere in Bern: Saturday 10. September 2011, 8 pm, Kino Kunstmuseum, in the presence of the directors and in cooperation with Swiss Commission for UNESCO. Further screenings according to program.
Aarau: 15 - 17 September 2011, 8.30 pm Freier Film Aarau. Fr 16 September in the presence of the directors
Schaan: 22 – 26 September 2011, Takino, screenings according to program.
Zug: 10 October 2011, Filmclub FLIZ, unique screening, in the presence of the directors.
Luzern: 16 October 2011, Stattkino, Matinée, in the presence of the directors. Further screenings according to program.
Basel: 2 November 2011, 6.30 pm Stadtkino „Le bon film“. Premiere in the presence of the directors and the journalist Beat Stauffer. Further screenings according to program.
Thusis: 3 November 2011, 1.30 pm Weltfilmtage Thusis
Frauenfeld: 26 -28 December 2011, Cinema Luna, Screenings according to program


24 August 2011: Sira-Concert at Theater Spektakel Zurich with Sayyed el-Dawwy & Group