FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

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.
The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

Directed by

Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts

RT: 95 mins

A Channel 4 News & ITN Productions Feature Documentary
for Channel 4 and PBS FRONTLINE

Winner of the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary and the Audience Award at the SXSW
Film Festival, it has also won the Best Cinematography award at the 2019 River Run International film festival.
The film will have a U.S. theatrical release in the summer followed by a broadcast premiere on Channel 4 and

REVIEWS

“A bracingly horrific yet resiliently beautiful documentary”

Indiewire

”Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’s candid, wrenching doc offers a rare window into a woman’s experience of the Syrian conflict.”

Variety