For Sama / director, Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts ; producer, writer, Waad Al-Kateab.

Title:

ISBN:

9781531711214

Publication Information:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2019]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Originally broadcast as an individual episode of the television program Frontline in 2019.

DVD, region 1 NTSC, widescreen; stereo; [color].

Summary:

The Frontline film 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 Waad films the cataclysmic conflict raging around them.

Personal Subject:

Al-Kateab, Waad.

Geographic Term:

Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-

Subject Term:

Women--Syria--Aleppo

Mother and child--Syria--Aleppo

Photojournalism--Syria--Aleppo

Genre:

Documentary films

Biographical films

War films