Dox Box

Dox Box (Arabic: دوكس بوكس) and Dox Box Festival (Arabic: أيام سينما الواقع) were established and launched in Syria in 2008 as an annual documentary film festival and suspended in 2012. In 2014, it became ″DOX BOX Association″, a Berlin-registered non-profit.

Dox Box Festival was organised by a Syrian production company, Proaction Film, as a non-profit free-admission event to spread awareness and increase interest in documentaries. In its fourth edition, Dox Box 2011, it reached 28,000 admissions according to the festival's website.

In March 2012, The organizers of Dox Box festival decided to refrain from holding its fifth edition in protest against the killing and oppression of civilians in Syria according to a statement released on the official festival site. On 15 and 16 March 2012, a "Dox Box Global Day" screening was launched and exhibited several Syrian documentary movies in 39 cities across the world.is a nonprofit institution for support and training in documentary film-making. Based in Berlin since 2014, with one foot in Europe and the other in the Arab/African region, it proposes carefully designed programs targeting diversity, skills transfer and alternative visual perspectives. The mission is to support distinct and singular voices from the region to ensure that a vibrant, growing and inclusive space for documentary film-making continues to thrive.

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