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Images of horror from Chechnya. Destroyed houses, people fleeing, mutilated bodies, dead children. The 14 episodes, which assemble footage from the first and second Chechen wars, do not seek to explain or comment. They record the war in its raw violence—and they do not allow the viewer to look away. Some of the footage was shot by Tarak Protsuk, a Ukrainian journalist who was killed in Baghdad in April 2003. Nine minutes, fourteen stories: shocking documents from a ravaged country.
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A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.