For Sama

For Sama

  • Director: Waad Al-Kateab
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Syria, United States
  • Language: Arabic, English
  • Release date: July 26, 2019
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.20:1
  • Also known as: Pour Sama
  • "For Sama" is a documentary co-directed by Syrian female director Waai Akatib and British director Edward Watts , starring Waai Akatib and Hamza Khatib, in March 2019 It was released in the United States on the 11th.
    The film goes deep into the Syrian war zone to film the lives of local residents, directly hitting the daily life under the rubble of the war, and records a young woman in Syria who struggled with love, war, and motherhood over the course of five years   .

    Details

    • Release date July 26, 2019
    • Filming locations Aleppo, Syria
    • Production companies Channel 4 News, Channel 4, Frontline

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $43,796

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,350

    Gross worldwide

    $1,397,546

    Movie reviews

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    • By Federico 2022-03-21 09:03:11

      When the war broke out, she used the camera to write a chronicle for her daughter

      The outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in Wuhan has caused more than one billion Chinese people to stay at home. Staying home and self-isolation have become the only reliable and most effective way to fight the spread of the virus.

      During this period, in order to relieve loneliness and pass the time, many people decompress themselves by chasing dramas and watching movies, and correspondingly, some movie fans have already begun to miss the days of...

    • By Adela 2022-03-21 09:03:11

      I'm afraid of death, but I'm more afraid of losing you

      Death is a word that no one wants to touch in any way, but we touch it every day. Every day, people leave because of the pneumonia caused by the new crown virus, because of sudden traffic accidents, and because of the ruthless artillery fire of war. Sama was born in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, where artillery fire and escalating armed clashes between government forces and rebels have been where Russian planes have dropped countless bombs. Political stances aside, because the...

    • By Dennis 2022-03-21 09:03:11

      Reflections from a documentary

      "For sama" is on the screen today. It is said to be the best documentary at the Oscars this year. Because of the love of current affairs and politics, I quickly brushed the film. Since it is a documentary, it has a real background, and it just deepens the understanding of the aleppo war in the Syrian civil war. The film is about the daily life of a large number of opposition parties, and the background is the rampant killing of Putin and Assad. Sama is a child born in the war years. In the...

    • By Friedrich 2022-03-21 09:03:11

      May the world be at peace? May the dead rest in peace?

      Faced with the word war, I seem to have never felt the depth of it since I was born, and sometimes even feel that some of my misfortunes are caused by socialist peace. The demand is getting higher and higher, and the dissatisfaction with the current status of life is more and more caused by peace. When I was a child, I hated studying, and even naively thought that if one day there was a war in my own country, I would not need to study. However today I think I was terribly...

    • By Concepcion 2022-03-20 09:02:46

      Time not recorded, never existed

      Inadvertently looking back, I haven't posted a post for 10 years. It suddenly felt as if these ten years had disappeared inexplicably.

      But I know it doesn't, it's in the lens. Some are their own stories recorded on their own machines, and most of them still lie on the hard drive. Most of them are the stories of others who are farther away from me recorded by others around me. They shine on screens of different sizes, and have been watched and commented on by people of all skin...

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    • By Ruby 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      The mother who lost her child shouted into the camera: "You're filming? Film...

    • By Dameon 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      2020.9.16 Subjective description from a single perspective, but as an audience, it is also an indispensable perspective for us to understand things. The death in front of the vibrant little life is especially stark. No child in the world should bear this. The government that suppresses its own people by force cannot be forgiven for whatever reason. The most impressive shots are Sama's well-behaved, the two boys who lost their little brothers, the friend's little daughter describing the bombing a

    • By Raphaelle 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      So shocked. It's technically a pretty average movie. But technology itself is a boring standard, the boring standard that justifies some "good" boring movies. The world presents information in such a distorted way that the exposure to stars is far greater than the exposure to war. The world is so divided. And there are always some people in the air-conditioned room who say "It's really ugly" when they hear the screams of people in the distance who have tried their best to make a...

    • By Elissa 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      In the process of a civilized world gradually disintegrating, ZZ tends to a serious & private subjective perspective. I feel that from the shooting of the protagonist, I can see the real situation of the director's social group, and see what happened in Syria. It is indeed about human nature and the scenes of life and death. people...

    • By Jennings 2022-03-28 09:01:12

      The existence of such a film is a kind of fortunate record. For those who can calmly analyze from a technical point of view, I think you are really okay, disgusting enough. It's not a movie, it's just telling a true story. As audiences, we should let go of opinions, let go of opposition, and sympathize with or empathize with those missing...

    Background creation

    Director Waai Akatib will always remember a mother yelling, take it, take it, and let the world see what happened. At the time, next to this woman was a dead baby-not more than a year old, and she tried to tell him that she brought him milk during the siege. In the revolution that broke out in Syria, Akatib recorded this disastrous revolution   . During the filming of "For Sama" , director Waai Akatib witnessed a lot of massacres. Her...
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    Movie quotes

    • Waad Al-Khateab: Sama. You're the most beautiful thing in our life. But what a life I've brought you into. You didn't choose this. Will you ever forgive me?

    • Waad Al-Khateab: The sound of our songs was louder than the bombs falling outside