It is a daring idea: to grow food from old mattresses in a desolate camp at the edge of a war zone. When a refugee scientist meets two quirky professors, they must confront their own catastrophes - and make a garden grow. Short film now streaming on Waterbear.com.
Dans une ville du Moyen-Orient déchirée par la guerre où la musique a été interdite par les extrémistes islamiques, Karim, un brillant musicien, se bat pour reconstruire son piano détruit tout en essayant de s'échapper en Europe.
En près de dix ans, le conflit syrien a causé la mort de centaines de milliers de personnes et jeté dans l’exil quelque 12 millions de réfugiés civils. Comment les manifestations pacifiques de 2011, déclenchées par l’onde de choc contagieuse du printemps arabe pour réclamer un renouveau politique, ont-elles abouti à la pire catastrophe humanitaire du XXIe siècle ?
On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned.
A unique interview with Tooba Gondal, the woman who groomed and lured scores of Western women to join ISIS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker, recruiting a number of high-profile “jihadi brides” for ISIS militants in Syria: she allegedly helped organise the transporting of three British schoolgirls, including Shamima Begum, to Syria.
Comme tous les jours de frappes aériennes livre des cibles civiles en Syrie, un groupe de premiers répondants indomptables risquent leur vie pour sauver les victimes des décombres.
A camera crew follows a Jihadi group for a week in Syria
A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own
Pendant plus de quarante ans, le journaliste britannique Robert Fisk a couvert certains des conflits les plus violents du monde, de l'Irlande du Nord au Moyen-Orient, toujours les pieds sur terre et un carnet à la main, voyageant dans des paysages dévastés par la guerre, dénichant les faits et envoyant des rapports aux médias pour lesquels il travaille avec l'ambition de capter l'intérêt d'un public de millions de personnes.
Talal Derki retourne en Syrie, sa patrie, où il gagne la confiance d'une famille islamiste radicale, partageant leur vie quotidienne pendant plus de deux ans. Sa caméra fournit un aperçu extrêmement rare de ce que signifie grandir dans un califat islamique.
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.
Fear Us Women follows Hanna Bohman, a Canadian civilian who has spent the last three years in Syria as a volunteer soldier of the YPJ, an all-female Kurdish army, battling ISIS.
Rakka, Syrie, printemps 2015. Faustine ouvre les yeux sur l’enfer dans lequel elle s’est jetée avec son fils de 5 ans. À Paris, Gabriel et Adnan, deux jeunes activistes, sont émus par la détresse de Sylvain, le mari de Faustine. Ils vont ainsi monter une opération d’exfiltration à haut risque…
Elles ont à peine 20 ans et affrontent l'État Islamique au Kurdistan syrien. Dans cette région du monde où l'homme marche devant et la femme derrière, le fait qu'elles aient pris les armes au côtés de leurs frères revêt une signification extraordinaire. Leurs foulards de couleurs, leur calme et leur courage ont fait le tour du monde. À contrepied des flux catodiques d'images de guerres, Stéphane Breton filme leur quotidien dans un monde en ruine, l'attente et les veillées d'armes autour du souvenirs des disparus. Ce sont les combattantes kurdes, les Filles du feu.
A child from a poor family is exposed to food poisoning. This poisoning almost claimed his life, presenting his father with two choices: either abandon his principles and disregard his son's rights, or uphold his dignity and the dignity of his family.
Wali, an ex-sniper, leaves Canada to fight the Islamic state. He meets two Americans: Rebaz and Zyrian. One is a veteran of the war in Iraq. The other is a homosexual idealist. They meet the Kurds, a welcoming people. Together, they will confront the fanatical Islamic terrorists. Beside Heroes, an uncensored documentary that tells the tale of three volunteer fighters who realized that to change the world, you have to act.
THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since WWII. The film is produced by Sundance Award-winner Odessa Rae (Navalny). Rapper Abu Hajar, together with other creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a post-Rock musician (Anas Maghrebi), members of the first all-female Syrian rock band (Bahila Hijazi + Lynn Mayya), break-dancer (Bboy Shadow), choreographer (Medhat Aldaabal), and visual artists (Tammam Azzam, Omar Imam + Diala Brisly), use their art to rise in revolution and endure in exile in this new documentary reflecting on a battle for peace, justice and freedom of expression. It is an uplifting and humanizing look at what it means to be a refugee in today’s world and offers inspiring and hopeful vantages on a creative response to the chaos of war.
Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.