In August 2011, journalist Sofia Amara entered Syria illegally to film the revolutionaries. She spent three weeks in Damascus, Rastan, Homs and Hama, accompanied by rebels and filming the scale of repression they faced.
In Rastan, deserting army officers are now attempting to build their own “free army”. But President Bashir is determined to hold on to power at any cost. Over 2,000 people have been killed in the past five months. Systematic bombings, shootings, arbitrary detentions, executions and torture are all common.
Exclusive footage reveals how Hezbollah and Guardians of the Iranian Revolution are now active in Syria.
Shot in the style of a log book, Amara takes us to the heart of the Syrian revolution.
A harrowing and important film by acclaimed director, Manon Loizeau, on the use of rape as a weapon of war in Syria with personal testimonies from women abused in captivity.
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’82 Names’ traces the journey of Mansour Omari, a survivor of torture and imprisonment in Syria. As Omari seeks to rebuild his life in exile and visits sites in Germany that memorialize the victims of the Holocaust, he reflects on how to bring attention to the brutal regime he escaped—and counter extremist ideology in the future.
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Tens of thousands of men, women and children have disappeared into secret detention centres in Syria since the protests began in 2011. Survivors allege crimes against humanity. They’re fighting to free those still detained and to prosecute the perpetuators at the very top of the regime.
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