Director Waai Akatib will always remember a mother yelling, take it, take it, and let the world see what happened. At the time, next to this woman was a dead baby-not more than a year old, and she tried to tell him that she brought him milk during the siege. In the revolution that broke out in Syria, Akatib recorded this disastrous revolution
. During the filming of "For Sama"director Waai Akatib witnessed a lot of massacres. Her shots have been rolling and recorded some cruel scenes, including many pictures of dead children, Akati Bu took the shooting as a rebellion and recorded the atrocities committed by the Russian army supporting Assad against civilians in Aleppo
. During the six months of the siege, Akatib shot 500 hours of film, first with a mobile phone and then with a video camera. She learned how to use them to shoot. With the help of Edward Watts, a freelance filmmaker working on Channel 4 in the UK, Akatib learned to tailor and use a lot of footage to describe the city’s war and destruction
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For Sama background creation
2022-01-21 08:02
Extended Reading
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Ruthe 2022-03-19 09:01:08
From the very beginning, the director firmly stated the opposition's position. She used the camera to record the story of Aleppo before and after the besieged city. Sama’s smile, the sudden sound of guns, the crying of babies born after abdomen, the disappearance of the hospital in the monitor, the fuel bombs dropped by the gunship, the return of the Waad family through the line of fire, and the countless lives lost in the film, everything There is no way to pre-determine the script, and the realism that comes over the face only makes people feel at a loss.
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Archibald 2022-03-27 09:01:20
According to the neighbor's mother in the film, this is "everyday bombing soap operas". From "The White Helmets", which praised the controversial ambulance agency, to the despairing "Final in Aleppo", to "For Sama", which completely turned the mobile phone camera into its own organs, and "For Sama", which was distributed to the Nusra Front. Children of Terrorists" is an episode of "Aleppo Sad Story" that Syrian anti-government producers have customized for the Oscars every year. Speaking of which, for Sama, since the filming equipment has become part of the director's organ, she can really be filled with so much bloody or warm material from beginning to end. Coupled with the editing based on maternal love, a "private record" that is technically unavoidably low-quality and emotionally rich and moving is perfected. But what about the starting point for taking huge risks? Apparently the enthusiasm from the liberal university threw out a self-inflicted false proposition of "freedom or family", well, after all, the light of democracy is buried deep in the heart of this beautiful reporter.
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Waad Al-Khateab: Sama. You're the most beautiful thing in our life. But what a life I've brought you into. You didn't choose this. Will you ever forgive me?
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Waad Al-Khateab: The sound of our songs was louder than the bombs falling outside