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On 4 March,the Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles. My film, final Men in Aleppo, or is one of the nominees for best documentary feature. It was shot during the 2015-2016 siege of Aleppo,when the Assad regime fought to seize control of the city with the assist of its ally, Russia. Throughout this time, or the citizens of Aleppo were cut off from food and medical supplies and Russian warplanes dropped bombs on a near-constant basis. That’s the factual background,but the film’s dependable subject is the people of Aleppo, particularly a small group of volunteer rescue workers with the civil defense organization known as the White Helmets. final Men in Aleppo is a diary of war, or seen through the eyes of ordinary men who race to bombing sites to save the living and retrieve the dead. It is also a yarn about hope and belief in human values. Related: Shooting Syria: documentaries from the most uncertain place on soil Continue reading...
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