For Sama

For Sama

For Sama

8.2/ 10

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2019

Release Year

100 min

Runtime

Documentary

War

Overview

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.

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Keywords

found footage

woman director

syria

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Cast

Sama Al-Khateab

Sama Al-Khateab

Self

Hamza Al-Khateab

Hamza Al-Khateab

Self

Waad al-Kateab

Waad al-Kateab

Self

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Reviews(2)

8.5avg rating

SWITCH.

SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

January 26, 2020

10

10/10

'For Sama' is a tough watch, made even harder knowing that the neighbouring city of Idlib is currently under siege in the same way. It is also a beautifully edited and narrated piece that needs to reach as many people as possible, since we have no perception of what the Syrian war was like via tradi…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

April 20, 2025

7

7/10

There’s an anachronistic normality running through this documentary as we follow the young Waad Al-Kateab as she finds happiness, love and bears a child all whilst her surroundings in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo are quite literally raining hell down upon her. Using her own photography, we are…

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