To launch D-Caf - Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival 2014 with a splash, we invite you all to a screening of the much anticipated film, "Underground/On the Surface", winner of the Muhr Arab Award for Best Director in the documentary section at Dubai Film Festival.

Written & Directed by: Salma El Tarzi
Genre: Documentary
Venue: Radio Cinema
Cost: 10LE

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Doors will be open 2 hours before the screening, please be there early as the tickets will be sold on first come first serve basis.

Synopsis:
Following the underground shaabi music scene, known as ‘mahraganat’, the film focuses on the surge of popularity this genre recieved following the revolution; Oka, Ortega, and Wezza, three of the movement’s most prominent artists, are suddenly put under the spotlight, so the question is: will they be able to preserve their identity as independent artists?

Produced by: AKER productions

Salma El Tarzi
Graduating from the High Cinema Institute in Cairo, Salma El Tarzi explored several aspects of filmmaking before settling on producing documentaries. In 2004 she won a prize at the Rotterdam Arabic Film Festival for ‘Do You Know Why?’ and in 2008 she made her first documentary for Al Jazeera Television. In 2013, Underground/On the Surface won theMuhr Arab Award for Best Director in the documentary section at Dubai Film Festival.