For Sama
Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts
© ITN Productions 2019
Waad al-Kateab is a young Syrian woman living in Aleppo when war broke out in 2011. But under the bombing, life goes on. Every day she films the losses, hopes and solidarity of the people of Aleppo. Waad and her doctor husband are torn between leaving, and protecting their daughter Sama, or resisting to ensure the freedom of their country.
With : Hamza Al-Khateab, Sama Al-Khateab, Waad Al-Khateab
Image : Waad Al-Khateab
Editing : Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon
Music : Nainita Desai
Image : Waad Al-Khateab
Editing : Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon
Music : Nainita Desai
Production : Channel 4 News, Channel 4, Frontline
Distribution: KMBO
Distribution: KMBO
A journalist by profession, Waad al-Kateab began filming the Syrian demonstrations without any project in mind. She said that she “could never have imagined where it would lead me over the years. All the emotions we experienced – the joy, the loss of our loved ones, the love – and the crimes committed by the Assad regime against innocent ordinary people were unthinkable, unimaginable... From the beginning, I wanted to bear witness and show the humanity that remained around us, rather than the death and destruction that kept making the headlines.”