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Els contrabandistes de llibres de Darayya

  • A project of the company Dau al Sec
  • Delphine Minoui
  • Directed by Iban Beltran
  • Sala Tallers
  • 23/01/25 al 09/02/25

An act of collective resistance against the regime and censorship

Els contrabandistes de llibres de Darayya is a show that attests to the violence exercised by the power to stop the imagination and vitality of a people, by depriving them of reading and thinking.

In 2015, the journalist Delphine Minoui discovered, on "Humans of Syria" Facebook page, the photograph of a secret library in the heart of the city of Daraya in the midst of the Syrian war. A shelter of words with books collected from the streets after each bombing. The event struck her in such a way that she decided to research that group of young rebels who built a paper fortress in the heart of chaos.

Production team

Author
Delphine Minoui
Directed by
Iban Beltran
Translated by
Albert Tola, Isabelle Bres
Version
Albert Tola, Iban Beltran
Cast
Ilyass El Ouahdani, Laura Rosel, Marwan Sabri, Jorge-Yamam Serrano
  • + Information
    Based in Les passeurs de livres de Daraya by Delphine Minoui © Editions du Seuil, 2020

    Scenic space
    Judit Colomer

    Design and set costumes
    Montse Figueras

    Ligthing
    Alberto Rodríguez Vega (AAI)

    Sound space
    Damien Bazin
    Videocreation
    Miquel Àngel Raió

    * With images from the documentary Daraya: A Library Under Bombs by Delphine Minoui and Bruno Joucla, produced by Brother Films.

    Assistant director and movement
    Ana Pérez García

    Videocreation assistant
    Martín Elena

    Technical and management teams of the company

    Artistic direction
    Mercè Managuerra

    Production assistant
    Aida Llop


    Scenography construction
    TM Disseny Industrial
    Technical teams and company management

    Company technicians
    Alex Romero
    Carolina Durian


    Technical support
    Damià Plensa

    Executive Producer
    Sylvie Lorente

    Communication
    Marta Cros

    Distribution
    Cristina Ferrer (Tot Produccions)

    Production
    Dau al Sec company, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

    With the collaboration of
    Fabra i Coats - Fàbrica de creació de Barcelona

    Special thanks to
    François Vila and Mathilde Mottier

    Acknowledgements
    Mariam Bahous Yalaoui, Ali El Aziz, Malika Guezmi, Abdila Ouled-Driss, Charaf Kbaweh Bouhaja, Mohamed Soulimane, Festival OUI!

    TNC technical and management teams

    * The show may include images that may offend the sensibilities of the viewer.

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