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BEYOND KING OF THE MOUNTAIN

Director: Ryan & Leyla Haidarian

Release: 1388 (2009)

Genre: Documentary

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Screening August 5th, 6:30pm Noor Film Festival Introduce democracy and you will solve a nation’s problems, right? If only it were that simple. “By the people for the people” sounds attractive in theory, but its current application is increasingly perplexing analysts, politicians and ordinary citizens all over the world. Democracy as we see it today emerged under a particular set of circumstances at the onset of the industrial revolution in the West. The changes that have happened to our world since have placed new and unexpected challenges on many democracies, both young and old.

But is this really the end of the road? Award-winning filmmakers Leyla and Ryan Haidarian make a case for an evolution in the democratic notion. Beyond King of the Mountain unpacks some of the current challenges many democratic systems are facing and specifically proposes that their future may lie in a win/win, non-adversarial paradigm. The film questions the fact that we have come to view democracy exclusively as a contest and suggests that “by the people for the people” can be realized in other, more inclusive ways…

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Cast:Iraj Abedian, Nick Binedell, Gregory Dahl, Adam Habib, Michael Karlberg
Runtime:23 min
Status:In Theaters
Website:http://beyond.doubletake.tv/

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Noor Film Festival  (7 Comments)
The 4th annual Noor Film Festival will be held at UCL “James Bridges Theater” from August 5th till August 7th 2011. The Noor Iranian Film Festival (NFF), founded in 2005, is an international event, with the goal of educating and informing the non-Iranian community about the culture and heritage of Iranians around the world through the medium of cinema.

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