In a lot of ways, the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “For Sama” should have felt like nothing new. After all, the film had premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival and also ...

In 2011, as protests against the Assad regime broke out across Syria, economics student Waad al-Kateab grabbed her phone and started filming. For the next five years, al-Kateab would document her ...

The SXSW Film Festival unveiled the 2019 Jury and Special Award winners for 26th edition of the fest at Austin’s Paramount Theater with Josephine Mackerras-directed drama Alice winning in the ...

Despite this morning’s BAFTA noms diversity furor, there are some silver linings concerning inclusion. Syrian war documentary For Sama, from Syrian director Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, has become ...

For Sama, the story of one woman’s inspirational journey through love, motherhood, war and survival during five years of the brutal conflict in Syria, has been selected for a world premiere at SXSW ...

As bombs go off around her a baby girl sits quietly staring at her mother, no fear, no tears, this is life as usual for civilians living in war-torn Syria. “Sama, I know you understand what’s ...

“For Sama,” Waad al-Kateab’s wrenching story of raising a young daughter in war-torn Syria, has been named the best nonfiction film of 2019 at the International Documentary Association’s 35th annual ...

Syrian documentary “For Sama” was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday, taking home four awards for its sobering portrayal of how the ongoing war in Syria affects the women ...

Two men massage a baby’s chest so the infant – who is lying in an incubator – can breathe and inhale oxygen. Russian bombs target a hospital, smoke fills the air and a mom frantically calls out for ...

Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts's candid, wrenching doc offers a rare window into a woman's experience of the Syrian conflict. The Syrian civil war may be the largest human crisis of our age, and with ...

“For Sama” is a documentary about the bloody conflict in Syria, which has already been the subject of a string of notable nonfiction films, among them Feras Fayyad’s “Last Men in Aleppo,” Evgeny ...

“The Personal History of David Copperfield” won five awards Sunday at the British Independent Film Awards while Renee Zellweger walked away with the best actress prize for her star turn as Judy ...