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For Sama
By
Edward Watts , Waad Al - KateabDuration
94 MIN
Language
Arabic
Subtitles
French/english
Country
United States, England
Year
2019
Synopsis
For Sama traces the journey of a young woman, Waad al-Kateab, through love, marriage and motherhood across five years of the revolution in Aleppo, Syria. An intimate, visceral documentary about the female experience of war, Waad faces an impossible decision: should she flee the city to protect her young daughter’s life? But to leave means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much. The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
Direction
Edward Watts
Edward Watts is an Emmy award-winning, BAFTA nominated filmmaker who has directed over twenty narrative and documentary films that tell true stories of courage, heroism and humour from across the world, covering everything from war crimes in the Congo to the colourful lives of residents in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. His 2015 film Escape from ISIS exposed the brutal treatment of the estimated 4 million women living under the rule of the Islamic State and, for the first time on television, told the extra ordinary story of an underground network trying to save those it can. It received numerous international awards and citations, including an International Emmy and Bafta nomination for Best Current Affairs Documentary.
Direction
Waad Al - Kateab
In January 2016 Waad Al Kateab started documenting the horrors of Aleppo for Channel 4 News in a series of devastating films simply titled
Inside Aleppo. The reports she made for Channel 4 News on the conflict in Syria, and the most complex humanitarian crisis in the world, became the most watched pieces on the UK news programme and received almost half a billion views online and won 24 awards including the 2016 international Emmy for breaking news coverage. She stayed through the devastating siege documenting the terrible loss of life and producing some of the most memorable images of the six year conflict. When she and her family were evacuated from Aleppo in December 2016 she managed to get all her footage out.
Producer
Ben De Pear
Nevine Mabr
Original Title
For Sama
