Yasmin Fedda’s powerful documentary lays bare the human cost of the Assad regime and salutes those who continue to fight
Director Yasmin Fedda, who is from a Kuwaiti and Syrian background and lectures in film at
Queen Mary University of
London, has created a powerful and urgent documentary tribute to those who have been “forcibly disappeared” by the Assad regime in
Syria, estimated to be around 150,000 since 2011.
Fedda focuses on two people: dissident writer and computer programmer Bassel Khartabil, who was abducted in October 2015 in
Damascus, and Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, the hugely popular and admired Christian priest who was taken in July 2013 in Raqqa. She uses existing video of these two, from various family members and organisations, along with her own footage showing the campaigns of the loved ones left behind with their burden of anguish and their need to battle on and bring these crimes to the world’s attention.