For Sama

For Sama

2DCS12
Premiere:12. March 2020
Length:95 minutes
Genre:Documentary

For five years, during which the people of Aleppo dreamed of a free life while being subjected to daily bombing, local journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Khateab filmed the situation, from the protests in 2011 to the outbreak of the worst civil war of our time. With camera always in hand, she married a doctor and give birth to a daughter, to whom the film is dedicated, as a diary that can answer the burning question of why she had to experience the first years of her life amid the everyday horror of war and omnipresent death.

Length: 95 min

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 12. March 2020
World premiere date: 13. September 2019

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom

For five years, during which the people of Aleppo dreamed of a free life while being subjected to daily bombing, local journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Khateab filmed the situation, from the protests in 2011 to the outbreak of the worst civil war of our time. With camera always in hand, she married a doctor and give birth to a daughter, to whom the film is dedicated, as a diary that can answer the burning question of why she had to experience the first years of her life amid the everyday horror of war and omnipresent death.

Year: 2019
Local premiere date: 12. March 2020
World premiere date: 13. September 2019

Country of origin:

  • United Kingdom