But it has been a very different experience to what I expected.
With everything that’s happening in Syria, you need all the time to keep pushing back to the same one line: I got a scholarship for university for a masters in media communication and development.
Photograph: Waad Al-Kateab For Sama, a new documentary from … I’m just glad that nightmare is finished.Of course. You’re still fighting and doing something even if you’re out [of Syria].
They slept in their witches’ dresses for the whole week.We had a really hard time after we left [Aleppo] with Sama. After my neighbors watched the film on Channel 4, they left great messages outside of my door the next day, it was just so lovely.For me, Aleppo and Syria will always be my first home, but I really feel like here in England I have a second home.Making and promoting the film has been good in that you feel like you’re not separate from what’s happening. It’s five years. They switch between English and Arabic — Sama has started correcting our spelling. And she has a British accent, I’m like no, please no! To the place that I love?” She also discussed how she hopes the film and the campaignA lot of people have told me, your activism is something, and the film is something else.
For covering the Siege of Aleppo, she won an International E… Pour elle, il s'agit de montrer, enregistrer et archiver ce qui se passe à À partir de toutes les images qu'elle a tournées dans ce cadre, et avec la collaboration du réalisateur de documentaires britannique Edward WattsLors de son discours de remerciement pour l'obtention du prix du meilleur film documentaire du BAFTA, elle évoque la situation des civils en Syrie : « il y a des bombardements sur plus de 3,5 millions de civils. I did it just to be a record, even to put in one library and to say this is one story of Syria.Our hope is that the film is not just a film. After the screening filmmakers Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts and subject Dr. Hamza al-Kateab will be interviewed by Anne Barnard who led … As Waad al-Kateab’s intimate documentary about life during the Syrian uprising airs on PBS, she discusses what her family’s day-to-day looks like as refugees in England.How do you get viewers to care — really care — about things happening on the other side of the world?This was a question the journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Kateab and her co-director Edward Watts grappled with as they started sifting through 500 hours of footage of the Syrian uprising. Ces gens sont à Idlib, ils devraient entendre vos voix maintenant. Elle est étudiante lorsque surviennent les premières manifestations, au printemps 2011, de ce qui deviendra la révolution syrienne, puis la guerre. I know many people stuck inside Syria now, or in the camps, or in Turkey.I had been working with Channel 4, so I had access to a visa to come to the U.K. After one year of living in Turkey, in May 2018 we came to Heathrow Airport, and claimed asylum there.One thing, though, was that when we came to England, I couldn’t bring my second daughter, Taima. Très vite, elle rejoint les groupes d'étudiants qui organisent les cortèges des manifestations demandant la liberté et la démocrat… Waad utilise le pseudonyme al-Kateab pour protéger sa famille . “For Sama” had a theatrical release earlier this year, but al-Kateab said over the phone that it was important for her that people could now watch the film in their own homes, and wonder, “What if this happened to me? [Laughs. En 2009, elle renonce à son rêve d'étudier le journalisme, métier trop dangereux dans la Syrie d'assad, selon sa famille , et déménage à Aleppour y suivre des études d'économie .
People can watch it, but also it’s a tool for change.
Follow Waad Alkateab's Instagram account to see all 139 of their photos and videos. Even though I’ve had to leave, this has stopped me feeling hopeless.The film is a chance for Syria to be back in the news, when everyone feels like the world is ignoring what’s happening in Syria. In 2009, 18-year-old Al-Kateab moved to Aleppo to study economics at the University of Aleppo. Since then, the family has claimed asylum in England, and today they live in London.
I’m sure that me and Hamza stand up now because of them. Next year he will do a masters in public health.Sama is 4, and Taima is 2 and a half. She was almost 1 year old, and she had no papers. Al-Kateab and her daughter, Sama, in Aleppo in 2016, with the ‘playground bus’ behind them. You need to find hope everyday when you wake up, and with children you just keep going for them.After ‘For Sama,’ a Syrian Family Finds Refuge in LondonWaad al-Kateab and her daughter Sama in Aleppo, as seen in the documentary “For Sama.”From left, Taima, Waad and Sama al-Kateab with Afraa Hashem and her daughter Naya al Altrash, who also featured in “For Sama.” Waad and her family visited Afraa and her family in Turkey in August this year. I lost everything. The film is just fighting this in a very simple way, in that you feel that you know these people, and you care about them.