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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.[1]
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.[2]
Dox Box Independent Documentary Film Festival is the main activity of Proaction Film, a small-sized independent film production company established in 2002 . In the absence of both film schools and art house cinemas in Syria, Dox Box was established to provoke a missing connection between film and the audience. Its first edition took place in February 2008.