For Sama

“I keep filming, it gives me a reason to be here.” Journalist Waad al-Kateab gives birth to her daughter Sama in a beleaguered Aleppo, where her husband Hamza is saving lives at the last remaining hospital. Soon they will have to face an impossible choice: to flee – or to remain in their bomb-riddled, beloved hometown, where so many have fallen victim in the fight against Syria’s President Assad. Over a period of five years, FOR SAMA tells a diary-style story from a most personal, most human perspective about the destructiveness of civil war and the heart-breaking everyday life of a young journalist, wife and mother. It is a modern war film told from a female perspective, which becomes a deeply touching movie about love.