After he completed his mandatory military service, the filmmaker was held in retention as the revolution unfurled in his country. His military rank was that of a sergeant. During these times, he would go back to his home, located in the middle of Damascus city, take off his military uniform and return to his normal life, working as an assistant director with his friend, the filmmaker Mohammed Malas. To make sense of this schizophrenic situation, he decides to take his camera and start shooting a ‘making-of’ that will eventually go beyond Malas’s film.

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Tree Ukrainian volunteers, injured during the war with the Russians and the separatists, are treated...

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A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig ou...
In 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War and on the heels of Nixon's announcement that U.S. troops ...

History of US labor movements and their suppression. It includes sections on the American Constituti...
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