Special screening of the documentary “For Sama” was held in Istanbul
Waad Al-Kateab, 18, found himself around the civil war in Aleppo, Syria to go to university education.
He recorded his experiences with his cameras for years. Those recordings met with the audience in the documentary “For Sama”.
migration and Harmony Association, which works on immigrants, Culture and tourism He made a special screening of the documentary in Istanbul with the support of the Ministry of Health.
“We had a home, a history, a practice, we didn’t want to leave”
Director Waad Al-Kateab, who is in Turkey for the screening on TRT He made the following statement to the news:
“While shooting these shots, he wanted to explain who he was separating and why they were fighting and what he wanted to show. Today, the Syrians are still in their camps, their different centers are scattered. We had our house, our history, our exhibition, we didn’t want to leave it.
The documentary about the drama in Syria was screened in Turkey.
Director Waad Al-Kateab, in his documentary, addresses his daughter Sema, who was born during the siege of Aleppo, as “Love Letter”. In war, lives seem the simplest.
Doctor Hamza Al-Kateab said about his experiences with the documentary:
“He could hear people or those restricting air strikes. But he couldn’t see what you were saying, what the struggle was. Many people watched the documentary and asked, ‘Did this really happen?'”
Harmony Program manager Yavuz Yiğit used the following statements about the documentary:
“There are some prejudices against Syrians in Turkey saying ‘they didn’t fight enough, they didn’t fight’. When you watch the movie, the opposite happens. We made them empathize here.”
“I have a dream of returning to my homeland with my daughters”
Syrian resident Al-Kateab also described his hopes for the future with these words:
“I still have hope.