Doc & Discuss @ Dixon

Salaam Dunk

Join us for an installment of Doc & Discuss! We will screen a documentary and hold space for conversation about its topic.

Join us for Doc & Discuss! In this Saturday series of events, we will be screening a topical documentary and holding space for a discussion about its topic afterwards. We will be offering light refreshments during the screening to all attendees. 

April's documentary is Salaam Dunk: One team, one season, one Iraq. In this documentary, we will learn how basketball is much more than a game. This stirring documentary features an Iraqi women’s basketball team at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUIS) in Kurdistan. For the young women on the team, most of whom have never touched a basketball or been allowed to play any sport, it is a blissful release from the realities of a war-torn nation. They come from all ethnicities and sects – Arab, Kurd, Christian, Sunni, Shiite – but the joy they discover in playing and the deep love they come to feel for the young American man who coaches them reveals an Iraq that is united in a way we’ve never seen before. 

This film was selected in honor of April being National Arab-American Heritage Month. We will start our discussion with some context about the release of the film and its impact on audiences since 2011 up through today.

Spend a cerebral Saturday afternoon with us at the library! We hope to see you there.

All films screened in this series of events are available to stream at www.kanopy.com. Stream films, television shows, and more for FREE with your library card! 

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