St Helens Refugee Community Film Festival presents 'For Sama'
Presented by: Lucem House Community Cinema Plus+ St Helens.| 0 | ST HELENS: Community Cinema Plus (info) |
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| P | Saturday 21st June, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 6:30pm Start time: 7:00pm |
| . | Film: 18 |
| C | Film |
Event information
St Helens Refugee Community Film Festival in conjunction with Lucem House presents 'For Sama'
An epic and intimate journey filmed through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. Waad al-Kateab tells the story of how she fell in love, married and gave birth to her daughter Sama.
The film focuses on Waad Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian uprising. Her husband is Hamza al-Kateab, one of the few doctors left in Aleppo, and they raise their daughter Sama Al-Kateab during the Syrian Civil War.
An intimate, visceral documentary about the female experience of war, Waad faces an impossible decision: should she flee the city to protect her young daughter’s life? But to leave means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
For Sama made history when it was nominated in four categories in the BAFTA awards, making it the most nominated documentary ever. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Winner Grand Jury, Best Documentary and Audience Award, Best Documentary at SXSW in March 2019.
Winner Special Jury Prize, International Documentary at Hot Docs 2019
