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For Sama

2020
Videos and DVDs
The Frontline film is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. 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 Waad films the cataclysmic conflict raging around them.
Main title:
For Sama / Channel 4 News & ITN Productions present ; directed by Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts ; filmed and produced by Waad Al-Kateab.
Author:
Al-Kateab, Waad, screenwriter, (film producer, film director)Watts, Edward, (film director)PBS Distribution (Firm), (publisher)Channel Four News, (production company)ITN Productions (Firm), production company
Imprint:
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2020.
Collation:
1 DVD-video (96 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally broadcast as an individual episode of the television program Frontline in 2019.
Credits:
Editors, Chloe Lambourne, Simon McMahon.
Audience:
Rating: MA15+.
Awards:
Special Jury Prize: Int'l Feature Documentary, hotDOCS, 2019.Grand Jury Award and Audience Award: SXSW Film Festival, 2019.
Dewey class:
956.913
Language:
Arabic
BRN:
370582
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryDVD M15+956.913 FORAvailable
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