Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Syria 2019
95 min
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 the cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
*Not for sensitive viewers.
Cinemaverse, a project by the Goethe-Institut Namibia, will throughout the course of 2020 screen art-house films from in and out of Africa. Curated by well-known and multi-talented filmmakers, Florian Schott and Nocks Chatiza, the selection of films were created by independent production companies. Cinemaverse will expose viewers in Namibia to a genre with great potential.
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