Last Men in Aleppo (De sidste mænd i Aleppo)

2017 | Denmark, Syria | NR | 104 min.

Showings

Bijou by the Bay Fri, Aug 3, 2018 3:00 PM
Film Info
Section:Foreign Documentary
Release Year:2017
Runtime:104 min.
Rating:NR
Production Country:Denmark
Syria
Original Language:Arabic
Subtitles:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Feras Fayyad
Produced by:Kareem Abeed
Søren Steen Jespersen
Stefan Kloos
Screenwriter:Feras Fayyad
Cinematography:Fadi Al-Halabi
Editing By:Michael Bauer
Steen Johannessen

Description

If you see nothing else this festival, you must see this heartbreaking but essential documentary about some of the bravest and most compassionate souls in the world. The White Helmets are the ones who stay behind, digging through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors after the bombs drop on Syria. They are just regular folks, not militants or rebel fighters, but civilians who push politics andreligion aside until only humanity remains. They risk their lives to save children, to pull bodies fromwreckage in order to give them burial, and worry about the safety of their own families, rejoicing in a few minutes of cease-fire so the kids can play a quick game of soccer. Horrifying and beautiful, harrowing and inspiring, this astonishing feat of filmmaking will entrench you in the visceral tragedy of this ongoing war and yet all at once reveal the sheer light of hope and grace that can exist inhumankind.