B.A.D. CINEMA PRESENTS: FOR SAMA

About the event:

Doors open from 7pm, high-street entrance to Boscombe Arts Depot (B.A.D.) on Wednesday 30 November. We are delighted to continue our film screenings on Wednesday evenings with support from Film Hub South West through their audience development fund with BFI. This is the last event in our autumn film programme series ‘The Show Must Go On.’

About the film:

For Sama, 2019, (18) directed by Waad al-Kateab.

Cast: Edward Watts, Waad al-Kateab

“A profoundly moving study of horror and hope.” The Guardian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

For Sama 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 cataclysmic conflict rises around her.

Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

With talk from special guest Good Chance Theatre.

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Running Time: 100mins

This film contains: disturbing scenes and images of real dead bodies

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We want to keep prices to a minimum so as many people can come as possible. Tickets are therefore £5.00. Free tickets are also available for those with low income, outsider artists, asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants. You can also email us instead for a free ticket if that is easier for you – gotbeaf@gmail.com