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Catastrophe At 4 A.M.: Director Waad Al-Kateab’s ‘Death Without Mercy’ Recounts Horror Of 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake
The Turkey-Syria earthquake of 2023 is documented in 'Death Without Mercy,' directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab.
The new documentary Death Without Mercy, directed by Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab, captures what happened when tranquility was shattered at 4:17 a.m. local time on February 6, and the extraordinary scenes of destruction and suffering that followed in the hours and days afterwards. After the earthquake, Al-Kateab was able to establish contact with friends Fadi al-Halabi – main cinematographer of Oscar-winning short documentary The White Helmets — and Fuad, who had been away from their families in Southern Turkey when the quake struck. Al-Kateab and her husband Hamza, who worked as a physician in a hospital in Aleppo, had seen their city reduced to ruins by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, yet the earthquake produced imagery that was somehow harder to absorb.
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