Payomet presents the Cape Cod Festival of Arab Cinema. Flood in Ba'ath Country will be screened at Wellfleet Preservation Hall. In 1970, director Omar Amiralay showed his enthusiasm for President Hafez Al-Assad's efforts to modernize Syria by dedicating his first documentary to the construction of the impressive new Euphrates Dam. The dam, and others like it, was to be the pride of the Ba'ath Party. The collapse of the Zayzun Dam thirty years later, which killed dozens of people and ruined thousands of lives, and the revelation of an official report that had predicted the dam's fate, inspired Amiralay to make A Flood In Baath Country, which examines the flood's devastating impact on a Syrian village. With its powerful and daring critique of Syria's political regime and the tribal politics that hold it together, the film foreshadows the wave of democracy currently sweeping the Arab world, with citizens finally rising up to demand a fundamental change in their countries' leadership. “A rare contemporary example of filmmaking combining formal mastery with political courage.” –Peter Scarlet, Tribeca Film Festival Tickets are $9 Advance. For more info and tickets, visit our website at payomet.org or call the box office at 508-487-5400