For Sama
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Waad falls in love with a doctor amidst the conflict in Syria. For five years she records their existence on film. Everyday life alternates with the horrors of the devastating war.
This is a much-needed injection of empathy. Although it is horrifying, it is a film full of hope: the couple gets married and they have a baby. This film is for her, for Sama. A radical film in which love triumphs over the horror of war.
- direction
- Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
- duration
- 100 min
- year
- 2019
- country
- Syria, UK
- language
- Arabic
One of the most profoundly intimate depictions of the Syrian conflict ★★★★★
