London — It’s a few days after the Oscar nominations, and Waad al-Kateab, who co-directed “For Sama” with Edward Watts, estimates she’s seen her children for less than two hours since the announcement. It’s been a whirlwind few months for Kateab, who has created a home here since fleeing Syria at the end of 2016. “For Sama” became the first documentary to win best British Film at the British Independent Film Awards in December and it recently made history by earning four nominations for the 2020 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, making it the most-nominated documentary in BAFTA history. And now the film is up for best documentary at the Oscars.
Los Angeles Times: ‘For Sama’ filmmaker captures the pain and destruction of war in Syria
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) recover a body from the rubble of a collapsed building following a reported regime air strike on the village of Deir Sharqi on the eastern outskirts of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northern province of Idlib on August 17, 2019.
