The War Show

International Competition for Feature and Medium-length

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O Show da Guerra
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O Show da Guerra
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Diretor Andreas Dalsgaard
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Diretora Obaidah Zytoon

When the Arab Spring came to Syria in 2011, the radio presenter and DJ Obaidah Zytoon and her friends began shooting street protests with their cameras and cell phones. Intuitively and without any prior planning, they captured firsthand the events that would spur the progressive radicalization across the country, which was eventually ravaged by a civil war with no solution in sight. When Obaidah left Syria in 2013, she carried with her five hard drives containing images that produced 200 hours of raw material, from where she and the Danish co-director Andreas Dalsgaard drew this pungent, vivid and painful portrait of war in Syria.