The second when the great news came:
For Sama made it to
#Oscar2020
Thanks for everyone who opend his life to me and my Camera and also thanks for everyone who helped us and gave us lots of love though this long journey from Aleppo 2011 to the great team here today.
@forsamafilm
Who could forget the persimmon's love in
@forsamafilm
?
After 10 months, Afraa is reunited with her family here in
#London
.
I can't describe how happy we are to be together again.
A new start and future until we will be back to
#Aleppo
.
@ActionForSama
This video made me cry. I love you all so much.
I can’t be more proud and honoured to be from the team of Channel 4 News
The people who are a family to me. Without your support and love, For Sama will not see the light.
I am so proud of my colleague
@waadalkateab
whose Oscar nominated ‘For Sama’ is one of the most powerful, uplifting and necessary films I have ever seen. Please watch and share!
For Sama is not just a film for me. It is my life. I survived for a reason, and through my filmmaking, I was able to give a platform to Syrian civilians being killed silently.
@UN
must take full responsibility.
#stopbombinghospitals
@actionforsama
#forsama
I am a refugee.
And I will always be, until I will see Assad down.
Yes, We wish , as a Syrians, that non of us made it out.
Maybe that's better for the world and for us.
I know this is an uncertain time for us all. This is also a critical time for Syrians in Idlib. On the 9th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, please will you join me and ask your MP to take 95 minutes to
#WatchForSama
and act for
#Syria
?
Today I travel to the United Nations to tell them what every Syrian knows - the
@UN
have completely failed us. I will stand with American doctors to deliver messages from physicians in
#Idlib
who are working under the most difficult humanitarian conditions.
#Stopbombinghospitals
After all the crimes they have committed in
#Syria
, I can't believe that
#Russia
has won a seat on the
@UNHumanRights
Council, getting the votes of 158 member states of the
@UN
General Assembly.
Am I stupid? Or is this the mad world we live in?
In a demonstration against
#Assad
in Majdal Shams in
#occupied
#Golan
,
@AramShakeeb
's mom wrote on banner what was on my dress for the
#Oscar2020
A thing means the whole world to me.
Our voices will never stop to gain a free Syria.
So happy and honoured to receive a great recognition of 3 awards
Best documentary, best director and best film. Please watch
#ForSama
and join us on
@ActionForSama
to act for 3 million people who are in
#Idlib
under attacks by asaad regime and its allies.
#stopbombinghospitals
I am so honored and happy by 4 nominations of BAFTA.
Thanks for all the love and support for me and for the film especially in this hard time for the Syrian people in Idlib inside Syria.
سعيدة وفخورة جدا...
When we start a random conversation in the street with a stranger, let's not ask, Where are you from? Let's ask him/her what do you do for living? What is your favorite food? What is anything...
بإسمي وإسم القيادة الحكيمة نبارك للمواطنتين وعد الخطيب وأماني بلور
@waadalkateab
@AmaniBallour
على ما حققاه من إنجاز عالمي يرفع من رصيدنا الديمقراطي وحرية التعبير بين الدول العربية ,وإننا نطمح أن يقبلوا دعوتنا لحظور تكريمهما في فرع المخابرات الجوية في جو يسوده الفرح والوطنية
Today is the anniversary of
@ActionForSama
Everything we've done would never have happened without the people who stood by us, and believed in what we are doing.Thank you to all the people who were a part of the film, and of our life.We grow with your support and by your love
So wonderful to be honoured on
#internationalwomensday
by the
#academy
for my work on
@forsama
which never would have happened without the support and kindness of
@nevmab
who helped me all the way from Aleppo to the Oscars.
@UN
@SyriaCivilDef
I visit the
@UN
not because I think it will change anything - the world has abandoned us for 9 years to be killed in every way possible. But I believe the hardest thing is to be killed in silence. So we keep raising our voices for those in
#Idlibunderfire
.
#stopbombinghospitals
In 92 years of Academy only 5 women were nominated in the category of best director. This year - 0. Historical that this year 4 female directors have been nominated for best documentary. Julia Reichert - American Factory,
@waadalkateab
- For Sama,
@naturalhairrule
- Honeyland. 👊🏾
I am so proud to announce that today
#HumanRightsDay
I submit my archived material as evidence of atrocities committed in
#Syria
by Assad regime and it's allies.
“I captured every record, every voice, every picture and every video. I’m the witness...
This is a serious tweet related to
#coronavirusuk
Through my experience in the siege of Aleppo, the most significant things we should store are onion and garlic.
#CoronaVirusChallenge
This is the adorable moment
@waadalkateab
and her daughter Sama found out that
@forsamafilm
had won our TV Award.
The heartwrenching film documents her experience bringing Sama into the world during the height the Syrian conflict.
She documented human history in For Sama, but for Oscar-nominated
@waadalkateab
, the fight continues until Syria is free and justice is served. Here, she talks exclusively to
#VogueArabia
about why she holds out hope for a peaceful Syria.
“I don’t deserve to be alive.”
68-year-old Peter was in an induced coma for nine days after contracting Covid-19. Channel 4 News has followed his remarkable return journey back to life.
Filmed by
@waadalkateab
@UN
@SyriaCivilDef
The suffering does not stop in
#Idlib
. Yesterday 12 people were killed and 37 people were injured - many of those were displaced people. The Ariha hospital was bombed just after midnight. More than 60,000 people have fled their homes in the last 3 days.
Like today, last year, for Sama played in Festival de Cannes.
mixed feelings of fear, happiness and very big responsibility we took upon our selves.
At that time we didn't know we were going to win the Camera eye award after few days, but only being there was a great achievement
متل اليوم من سنة كان عرض #إلى_سما ب مهرجان كان . مشاعر مابتنوصف من الخوف والفرح والمسؤولية الكبيرة اللي شايلينها.
بهي اللحظات ماكنا منعرف شو مخبى وانو رح نربح جائزة المهرجان بعد بأيام، بس وجودنا ولافتة اوقفوا قصف المشافي والمقابلات كان بالنسبة النا انجاز كبير
@Festival_Cannes
FOR SAMA
2019 Letterboxd Year in Review:
📹 Best Documentary
2010s Best of Decade:
📹 Highest Rated Feature Length Documentary
📹 2nd Best Overall Non-Fiction
📹 3rd Highest Rated - Women Directors
@forsamafilm
@waadalkateab
@watts_edward
@PBS
I can’t be more proud and honoured to be from the team of Channel 4 News
The people who are a family to me. Without your support and love, For Sama will not see the light.
الحكم على أنور رسلان بالمؤبد هو خبر كبير و ثقيل على قلوب السوريين بمختلف أحاسيسهن من السعادةو الأمل والحزن والاحباط.
مبروك لكل الناجين اللي حاسين بالأمل او القوة واللي شايفين اليوم خطوة أولى ومهمة للعدالة
وقلبي مع اللي عندن أسئلة وعم يدوروا ع جدوى بقهر الفقدان والانتظار لليوم
Dans les quartiers d'Alep à moitié en ruines, vivre sous les bombardements est le quotidien de Waad Al-Khateab, une jeune Syrienne, qui partage ces images poignantes, pour nous et pour sa fille Sama.
Pour Sama, seulement sur CANAL+.
Omar Alshogre is one of the great Syrian voices, and one of the strongest inspiring stories all over the words.We are so proud of you, your courage and strength.Whatever Asaad did, he will never win when we have people like Omar, so many people who protect our revolution and case
Thanks
@DOCNYCfest
, I am honoured to accept it and dedicate it to the heroes who still filming inside Syria every day risking their life to show the truth.
#forsama
#actionforsama
Honoured that For Sama awarded Special Jury Recognition for Courage in Filmmaking
@DOCNYCfest
:
@waadalkateab
“who put her body and her camera in the path of death and didn’t flinch. She produced a moving, human portrait of the human will to survive & the refusal to surrender.”
They are here. The
#BIFA2019
nominations are finally out! Check out our website to see who's got the nod this year: . Big massive thanks to our hosts
@theotherJoeCole
and
#NaomiAckie
. 💯👌🏽
Despite the sorrow and bitterness in the stories behind each picture that
@WafaMustafa9
carried , I am very proud of her and all the
@FamiliesSyria
and everyone in this trial who is still fighting for justice
“We saw the violence from minute one of the revolution.”
10 years ago today, the war in Syria began as “a call for dignity, for freedom, for a better life for us and our children,” says
@waadalkateab
, whose documentary
@forsamafilm
follows the uprising in Aleppo.
From protecting the truth by documenting the conflict in Syria on her mobile phone, to becoming a
@Channel4News
filmmaker & award-winning director,
#OYW
Ambassador
@waadalkateab
shares her incredible story with young leaders at
#OYW2019
👇
#ForSama
@forsamafilm
won DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR in London Critics’ Circle Film Award
We are so honored and happy that
@3fra2_hashem
the amazing woman attended the ceremony for the first time in the UK.
@londoncritics
I miss you and so happy to see you all in the picture
@Hamza_Alkateab
Director
@waadalkateab
and her family thank AJB Doc Film Festival after
#ForSama
was awarded the main prize of 'Best Film' in the competition in Sarajevo.
#electionUK
I am a refugee now in the UK. I always want to be back to Aleppo, Syria.
I've been here not for long time. It is just one year and a half. But London now for me is my second home.
3 years ago, I...
I am so proud to announce that today
#HumanRightsDay
I submit my archived material as evidence of atrocities committed in
#Syria
by Assad regime and it's allies.
I’m the witness who managed to get out alive. I will not give up until justice happen.
@ActionForSama
عيد الأم مع فريق ملهم التطوعي Molham Volunteering Team
و Action For Sama ..
فرحوا قلوب أمهاتكم وأمهات غاليين ع قلوبنا كلنا..
شاركونا ..
Mother's day 😍
Join us in
#wishes3
#أمنيات3
#عيد_الأم
#MotherDay
#MolhamTeam
#ActionForSama
الهالوين السوري اليوم وكل يوم
Syrian Halloween today and everyday
#sameshit
الأسد والإرهاب هنن واحد
Al Assad and the terror are the same
Drowning on the pumpkin by the artist Salem Alatrash
Cut and shaped by the artist : me 🤣
The image from an old campaign by
@KeshMalekSyria
"It's not just about Syria, it's about every one of you. It's about a country who just dreams of having freedom and dignity".
@waadalkateab
and
@watts_edward
swept
#BIFA2019
, taking home 4 awards including Best British Independent Film for their must-see film
@ForSamaFilm
!
As a young mom in Syria filmed her baby daughter at play, explosions shook the hospital where they were living. She kept filming. Watch a scene from “For Sama” — one mother's journey through the Syrian conflict. Tune in or stream TONIGHT on
@PBS
or online.
My heart is with all survivors who feel hope and strength. and they see in this court an important step into accountability for Syria.
#Koblenz
trial
#Syria
Wa’el alsoud a 9 year old Syrian child committed suicide at the door of a graveyard in Kojali province in Turkey
Wa’el hung himself after being bullied multiple times and receiving many racist insults from his Turkish classmates in
#Kojali
city only because he was Syrian!
I am so proud to announce that today
#HumanRightsDay
I submit my archived material as evidence of atrocities committed in
#Syria
by Assad regime and it's allies.
“I captured every record,...
"FOR SAMA" is not just a film , it is my life.
I was afraid I would never make this film.
While I was in Aleppo I dreamt of making it for my daughter Sama – to explain to her why we stayed.
I feel it does justice to our...
I was very honored to be part of the spical jury price
@BAFTALA
for this year.
Many amazing films from different categories. it wasn't an easy decision, and they are all great talented filmmakers.
Congratulations for all the winners and the nominees.
The winner of this year's Special Jury Prize - selected by Waad Al-Kateab, Isabel Coixet, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Clarke Peters - is documentary "Making Waves", directed by Laura Zéphirin from New York University. Congrats to Laura and her team! 🇫🇷🇺🇸
I am shaken to my core by
@forsamafilm
. A powerful testimony to the devastating ramifications of our collective apathy. A beautiful love story and a wake up call for the world. I’m in awe of
@waadalkateab
’s resilience and courage.
إلى سما.. هو مو بس فلم بالنسبة الي..هو حياتنا..
اليوم وبمناسبة اليوم العالمي لحقوق الانسان حابة خبركن بأني عم سلم موادي الأرشيفية كدليل على جرائم الحرب الي ارتكبها نظام الأسد وحلفاءه كأول خطوة بقدر اعملها تجاه المحاسبة .
نحن الناجيين,مارح نوقف,لا رح نسامح ورح نضل نسعى للعدالة
And My heart is also with other survivors who are struggling to find answers, and they are still looking for meaning after they lost their beloved ones or still waiting for them until today.
#Koblenz
trial
#Syria
Please watch to understand what 39 Bodies went through yesterday but they didn't make it.
Film by the great
@watts_edward
&
@oliviafscarlett
.
Some of the lucky few who survived.
After yesterday’s tragic events in Essex, we’re releasing
@OKSIJANfilm
our short about the true story of
#Refugees
trapped in a refrigerated lorry, online for the first time. If it can help people empathise more with the 39 who died pls share it wide
One of the speakers for Wednesday’s webinar is long-time Karam collaborator
@waadalkateab
. We hope you don’t miss out on this opportunity for reflection, hope, and growth. RSVP here:
Like no other, the Syrian people understand Ukraine's grief and suffering caused by Russia's barbaric war. With the Syrian civil society leaders, we deliberated on global strategies to hold Russia accountable for all its international crimes. Symbolically, we met exactly 10 years