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‘For Sama’ Director Waad al-Kateab on Turkish-Syrian Earthquake Doc ‘Death Without Mercy’: ‘These People Didn’t Die Just From a Natural Disaster’
'For Sama' director Waad al-Kateab on Turkish-Syrian Earthquake Doc 'Death Without Merci': 'These people didn’t just die from a natural disaster.'
On Feb. 6, 2023, after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Turkish-Syrian border, becoming the deadliest disaster in the region’s modern history, Syrian director Waad Al-Kateab was in London fretting about her family and friends, and feeling helpless. But she immediately reached out to people on the ground, including her friends Fadi Al Halabi, a cinematographer on Oscar-winning short “The White Helmets,” and Fuad Sayed Issa, founder of Syrian refugee-led humanitarian group Violet. It weaves together intimate first-hand footage with TV news reports, social media, CCTV, drone shots, archive material and master interviews, following a “you are there” narrative structure that chronicles the first 10 days in the aftermath of the quake that took more than 60,000 lives.
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