In 2011, as protests against the Assad regime broke out across Syria, economics student Waad al-Kateab grabbed her phone and started filming. For the next five years, al-Kateab would document her ...

"Sama - I've made this film for you. I need you to understand what we were fighting for..." Wow, this looks phenomenal. PBS Distribution has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary titled ...

In a lot of ways, the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “For Sama” should have felt like nothing new. After all, the film had premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival and also ...

Laying on her bed in Aleppo, Waad al-Kateab greeted Sama, her giggly newborn daughter, like she did most mornings, fearful of arrests, bombings and death. The Syrian ...

Guns rattle, dark plumes rise and a child is born into war. Her small life is a diary of the blood, pain and rubble that have shattered Syria. A new documentary about her, “For Sama,” is a riveting ...

Towards the beginning of Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ “For Sama” — a bracingly horrific yet resiliently beautiful documentary about al-Kateab’s experience as a woman, a patriot, and a mother ...

Distancing ourselves from cultures other than our own is classic American behavior. This is probably an effect of not being subjected to sustained violent conflict on our soil since the Civil War.

Waad al-Kateab and Sama, who was born during the Syrian conflict For Sama, a documentary about a young mother's experience of the Syrian civil war, has won the top prize at the British Independent ...

‘For Sama’ has been nominated for an Academy Award in the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ category. ‘For Sama’ is produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions for Channel 4 and Frontline PBS. ‘For Sama’ has ...

A BABY GAZES up at the camera, her brown eyes full of wonder. Friends and relatives cuddle and play with her, singing soothing lullabies. The group sits in the dark, dusty basement of a makeshift ...

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