Abstract
Like many a movie, For Sama starts with a bang that sets the scene for the explosions that pepper the rest of the film. Unfortunately, this is no Hollywood action blockbuster with jaw-dropping special effects. The explosions are not pyrotechnics but shelling and barrel bombs falling from helicopters flying overhead. The victims are not anonymous extras but civilians—men, women, and children. With an Oscar nomination and a British Academy Film Award, Waad Al-Kateab's and Edward Watts' 2019 documentary portrays a common life trajectory—finding love, marriage, pregnancy, birth, motherhood—but played out in the tragic context of the siege of Aleppo, Syria, and filmed in large part from within the city's hospitals as they were under attack.
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