Cries from Syria

Directed by Evgeny Afineevsky

With Hadi Al Abdullah, Raed Al Saleh and Helen Mirren

An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syria, through eyewitness and participant testimony. Children and parents recount the revolution, civil war, air strikes, atrocities and ongoing humanitarian aid crises, in a portrait of recent history and the consequences of violence.