Archive: Year 2016
CINEMA POLITICA
A Syrian Love Story
Director
Sean McAllister
Producers
Elhum Shakerifar
Sean McAllister
Cinematographer
Sean McAllister
Editor
Matt Scholes
Sound
Sean McAllister
Contact
CAT&Docs
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2015
United Kingdom
76 min
Color
Amer met Raghda in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. He first saw her bloodied face after a beating when she was placed in a neighboring cell. Over months they communicated through a tiny hole they’d secretly made in the wall. They fell in love and when released got married and started a family together. This film tells the poignant story of their family torn apart by the tyrannical Assad dictatorship. Filming began in Syria in 2009, prior to wave of revolutions and changes in the Arab world.
Director
Sean McAllister was born in United Kingdom in 1965. With a long professional career with his early films Working For The Enemy (1997) and The Minders (1998), both nominated for a Royal Television Society Awards, to his more recent successes, Sundance Jury Prize-winning The Liberace Of Baghdad (2004), Japan: A Story Of Love And Hate (2008), The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012) and his recent Sheffield Jury Prize winning A Syrian Love Story (2015), Sean’s work continues to inspire, to surprise and to fascinate audiences.
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