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Sunday Best: For Sama

Main St. Landing Performing Arts Center Film House
Sunday, Oct 6, 2019 4:00 PM
 
Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS
Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing
Directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts
**Winner – Best Documentary – SXSW 2019**
** Winner – Audience Award – SXSW 2019**
**Winner – Special Jury Prize Documentary – Hot Docs 2019**
**Winner - L'Oeil D'Or – Festival de Cannes 2019**
***Winner – Audience Award – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019**
94 mins | Documentary
Followed by Q&A moderated by Eric Ford, Director of Programs at Vermont PBS, with former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford
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.
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Admission Adult - $0.00

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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.

*** Sunday Best screenings are FREE with a suggested donation of $5.  We urge you to book in advance.