Genres: Documentary
Rating: K-16 (13)
Release Date: 17.11.2019
Length: 1h 40min
Distributor: *
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts:
For Sama
(UK, USA 2019)
100min - Arabic. English subtitles. K16
Tapio 4: SU/SUN 17.11. 15:20
The voice of a mother from a war-torn city
The award-winning documentary For Sama is directed by Waad al-Kateab and it tells her own story from war-torn Aleppo. Waad al-Kateab began filming in 2012 to post the Syrian student demonstrations on YouTube. Soon the demonstrations turned into a chaotic war zone, but al-Kateab continued. Over the years she filmed footage of bombings, corpses, weddings, births and raising children in the middle of a war. Life and hope still glimmer in the ruins of a burning city.
For Sama is an intimate and epic story of a mother's experiences during the war. It is a love letter to a daughter and an explanation for why a mother would stay in the wrecked Aleppo defending her freedom and raising her family.