In 2011, as protests against the Assad regime broke out across Syria, economics student Waad al-Kateab grabbed her phone and started filming. For the next five years, al-Kateab would document her ...

"Sama - I've made this film for you. I need you to understand what we were fighting for..." Wow, this looks phenomenal. PBS Distribution has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary titled ...

For Sama, the FRONTLINE documentary in collaboration with Channel 4, Channel 4 News and ITN Productions, was honored with a 2021 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award this evening. Filmed over ...

In a lot of ways, the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “For Sama” should have felt like nothing new. After all, the film had premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival and also ...

Laying on her bed in Aleppo, Waad al-Kateab greeted Sama, her giggly newborn daughter, like she did most mornings, fearful of arrests, bombings and death. The Syrian ...

Distancing ourselves from cultures other than our own is classic American behavior. This is probably an effect of not being subjected to sustained violent conflict on our soil since the Civil War.

Horror films, the thinking goes, are fictional. They feature monsters, mangled bodies, an abundance of dread — the stuff of night terrors, but rarely daily routines. “For Sama” may be a documentary, ...

When in 2011 the first student protests against Bashar al-Assad's oppressive regime erupted in Aleppo—at the time, Syria's most populous city—business student Waad Al-Kateab picked up her camera and ...

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Guns rattle, dark plumes rise and a child is born into war. Her small life is a diary of the blood, pain and rubble that have shattered Syria. A new documentary about her, “For Sama,” is a riveting ...

‘For Sama’ has been nominated for an Academy Award in the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ category. ‘For Sama’ is produced by Channel 4 News/ITN Productions for Channel 4 and Frontline PBS. ‘For Sama’ has ...

A BABY GAZES up at the camera, her brown eyes full of wonder. Friends and relatives cuddle and play with her, singing soothing lullabies. The group sits in the dark, dusty basement of a makeshift ...