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A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.
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Director
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Released
Original Language
AR

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.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.