Waad and Hamza al-Kateab on surviving the siege on Syria, resisting a regime and 'For Sama'
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2019
- Waad and Hamza al-Kateab are two Syrian refugees who risked everything to stay in Aleppo during the war. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Waad is an award-winning film-maker, whose documentary ‘For Sama’ just won Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.
It tells the intimate and epic journey of her experience of war, tracking her life over five years in eastern Aleppo, including the final stages of the siege.
Her husband Hamza is a doctor and ran a hospital in eastern Aleppo. He helped hundreds of civilians - from dealing with horrific injuries, to delivering newborn babies.
They talk to Krishnan ahead of their film's premiere at the Sheffield Doc Fest on Saturday 8th June. It will be shown on Channel 4 and released in theatres later this year.
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This documentary was heartbreaking to watch. I cannot even put into words how strong and brave these people are! These are the real heroes ❤️ May Allah always protect them
@Cheikh Talib first the "little" abdullah was 18. Still im not saying they are angels but still bashar al asas is tyrant who killed and exiled millions of civilians to remain president.
@Cheikh Talib Are u kidding me ? WHY STALIN SHOULDN'T BE PRESIDENT ? WHY HITLER SHOULDN'T BE PRESIDENT !!!!!!
@Cheikh Talib just because other countries have dictators doesnt mean its ok ! Just two years ago i was pro assad even tho i lived in aleppo until 2016. Until i went to another country and saw what it meana to live in a republic where you can express what u think without fearing beong tortured from the police or having to get exiled !
Also there are many middle eaatern countries where they have more democracy than syria ( Algeria, Tunisia and lebanon )
@Cheikh Talib ok, first thing first. Rebels are a thing and isis and jihadists are other thing. JIHADIST ALSO ATTACKED REBELS SO THEY ARE NOT REBELS especially isis. Second the assad family ruled the country for decades. Economy was not getting any better. We were/are definitely the most closed economy in the world and the currency was losing its value even before the war since the 80s. We are not the first country to have a revolution where socialist countries back up the socialist tyrant and western countries back up rebels.
This film take me back to the fear which I felt all the time when I was in My city when the regime was bombing it. All love for your family and wish to meet in free democracy Syria soon.
Me too
@Cheikh Talib Don't worry, God will take revenge from the killer of children, women and elderly.
May Alaah protect the civilian in Idlib and give them the peace soon.
@Cheikh Talib God ,Syria and the people.
Please speak to me. Im a christian but I believe in a Free Syria very much. I know the Truth about Assad and his regime and how evil he is. What does your country really need ? More man power to fight the regime ? More allies ? This news is very powerful as well. May Allah watch over you Abu Hamze. My next book im reading is the Quran.
So much love and respect for these people. Just finished watching For Sama and their bravery and selflessness in the face of death is incredible. Bless their lives and all those who serve others. Inspired and touched deeply 🙏🏼❤️
Brave, compassionate and dedicated people, and still working to help others. I have so much respect for them. x
AMAZING DOCUMENTARY! Thank you Waad for sharing your story, and for opening my eyes...educating me...I am forever changed.
Deeply moved by her film" For Sama" It shows how people can be strong and brave. All the best wishes for the peace of Siria.
This is too powerful for words.
So much love to all the people of Aleppo and Syria, who have suffered so much through unspeakable atrocities 💔💓💔
What incredible people
Yeah. Friends with Al ZInky head choppers who dragged a 14 yo Palestinian boy from hospital and decapitated him. Sure they're nice
What an amazing film. Thank you for sharing your story. It is very sad the world stood by and left you all to suffer such atrocities. You are brave and inspirational.
when I was 11 years old started the war in my cuntry Bosna and herzegowina. Watching this movie all come back. l have to leave bosnia too. ln years I came back home but it never feels the same. Now Im not living any more in my country.
I am same you. I am from Syria
which countries do you both now live in?
@@rahulkemp8347 Now I am living in Canada.
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An amazing interview with great answers! Has opened my mind a lot, it's better to hear someones actual experience in Syria.
An incredible film. I don't think I have seen anything so moving in a long time.
I respect this couple they, are brave!!! I hope they could return back home. For Sama
I'm late. But I just watched this film & it's remarkable. I feel so blessed that they're still alive to share their story with the world.
I just watched their documentary, it was amazing, they are really brave people, remarkable
Good wishes do not make sense to people in Syria. We have to do something for them. We must act now !!!!
Wow such an amazing and tragic story, thank you for sharing this podcast :)
I've seen for sama and it's the most powerful, moving and inspirational documentary I've ever seen,the moment with the emergency c-cection my heart was in my mouth, its opened my eyes too so much and even made me feel so guilty, I was always pig headed and closed minded towards immigration and refugees, I always felt like ppl were coming here because our country is so easy to take advantage of things offered too ppl, but seeing this I completely and utterly understand now why ppl come here for asylum,Look at the wars and dictatorships and treatments they are running from, these poor ppl,are being gunned down starving drowning in the process just too flee their war torn countrys just to keep their self's and their familys future brighter, love and peace from the UK ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Beautiful and inspirational and intelligent 👩 woman making a very moving and heartbreaking 💓 documentary 🧐
again such proof of the strength of the human spirit. The Movie, For Sama was so beautiful and difficult to watch at the same time. It is a Love story... God bless both of you and all of those who worked side by side with you thru the revolution.
They will want to go back because that's their home... home is where the heart is...UK is my home and will always will be, my childhood memories, my family and friends are here.
Hiya. WOW !!! Just came across the film today and searched about Hamza and Waad. WOW !!
amazing !!! As per comments below i would like to share with them and say you are TRUE HEROES. Welcome to the Uk and live your dreams. God bless to you and your family and all your friends you are all TRUE HEROES. !!!!
Waad is beautiful
Assad is a evil man. Got to respect these 2 for being brave.
Allah maha adil..
I believe the host, don’t realise when one went through so much drama in their lives, instead of curling up and die..
People become more Stronger, and fight back for their Survival, Which ever way they can...
You keep on and on, asking them over and over again, on how could they, They keep replying to your same
Questions over and over again....Stop trying to to try and catch them out on their Story’ They are educated
People stop 🛑 mucking around with their minds...🧚🏼♂️🌻🌻🌻
Very disturbing and heartbreaking movie. To see dying and suffering children is unbearable. I can't understand how she could decide to bring her own children into this world.
This is an interesting interview but the problem with just saying 'If Assad fell the moderate opposition would push out the extremists and take over' is rubbish. It might be harsh but it is true to say that Syria is just too strategically important to be left to its own devices if Assad were somehow toppled. Saudi Arabia, Iran, the US, France etc would all want 'their people' in charge, the foreign fighters would pour back in and the war would just go on and on for ever.
That's because these two are Muslim brotherhood activists and propagandists.
@@tvrtvr6984 Proof?
Lets be honest, this movie was aweosme, but it was one of the biggest propagandas Ive ever seen in my life, it doesnt give you any idea of the syrian war, it only shows the regime and russia as the bad guys, not even mentioning the united states, ISIS, the west specially france, britain, and france supporting the rebels who are mosty extremist jihadists who dont believe in a modern state where everyone can have the right to decide their beliefs, way of clothing, etc. They wanted to creat another islamic state which is close ISIS. Luckily the west failed to topple the regime, orherwise we would have another libya or Afghanistan.
While I watched the movie and admire them both, I can't ignore their selfishness for bringing into world own children and subject them to hunger, neglect and ptsd.
I guess this is similar to what Shamima Begum was thinking... She thought it was worth it and felt bad leaving for the refugee camp. Indeed like they said, all the countries need to take back their ISIS fighters so when Asad is removed, Syria can take care of itself
@@mett978You're mixing things up. Begum was a teenager with little critical thinking and decided to enter a warzone, become an Isis bride and reproduce because that's what Isis brides do. Now that she saw what war is truly like she wants to come back.
Waad and Hamza are Syrians determined to live in their own country, whatever it takes, to defy the regime by maintaining the hospital, reporting to international press, negotiating leave etc. Yes, they chose to have children, but for completely different reasons to Begum.
You can't be serious comparing Begum to Waad & Hamza...
@@MotanulFritz2008 Ultimately they were both fighting for something they believed in. They each had the chance to live in safety, but chose otherwise. Remember, there are doctors and casualties on every side - even on the side of ISIS. There are children who have no business being a part of war but are suffering and dying as a result. And there are those, also trying to document the atrocities of either side - Waad survived and hers got more attention. Asaad also still has supporters who'd probably blame the likes of Waad and Hamza for protesting and perpetuating a civil war. While they may not have had "freedom", they at least had a peace that allowed them to live a relatively normal life. The fact that Begum was just a teenager (with little critical thinking) who lived in a free and peaceful country and was convinced to give that up for ISIS and cause the deaths of 3 blameless human beings, makes her case sadder (to me anyway).
My point is, no one is right or wrong because motive and cause are subjective - everyone believes that they're doing the right thing. For me, personally, after watching my parents' struggle during and after the Liberian civil war, I don't think the sacrifices are worth it in the long term. Waad and Begum all fled in the end looking for peace. Assad and the Russians would have done the same had they lost. Ultimately there are people hurting, suffering and dying on all sides and war is not the answer.
Understanding, empathy, compassion and forgiveness from all sides is the way forward. Fighting because of a difference in opinion only grows more anger and hate.
Let's cultivate a love for humanity because that really is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. ♥️
"Hamza el Kateab" is a lying monster
Shame on Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News for mishandling her interview on Jan 16, 2018 and not taking responsibility for it
London Dr.Hamza....well done but so far from the revolution,we recognize that you helped so many people but i hope understood that REVOLUTION cant be with university love stories,spray messages on walls,fights without guns and weapons....
What a romantic university spirit in 21 century....pfffffff
Ahhhh you didnt say a word about ex-wife , is she ok ? Wish the best , ALLAH see everything !!!
Shame on Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News for inaccurately paraphrasing her interviewee more than 29 times in a half hour interview on Jan 16, 2018
Propaganda at its worst
Open letter to my mother : Sama responds to her mother :
by Andrea Duffour*
Dear mom, we are in 2035 and I'm 19 years old now, the age you were when you took your first political directions. I thank you for all the love that you have given me. In your film, For Sama (2019), I am the protagonist, a little baby. I cry every time I see this movie, with the atrocities you showed, you chose to touch the emotions of any normal person. But why did you make us think that it was the Syrian army that occupied Aleppo and was shooting at its own people?
At some point in the movie, you wonder if one day I will blame you for not having left Aleppo at the beginning of this war or if I will reproach you for having left it after its liberation? I can answer you now: I blame you for both!
I can understand your love for my dad and his group and your youthful blindness to your youthful demands for "a free Syria" - even though that the same Syria had given you excellent education and health system for free. It is normal for educated people to be critical and to have demands. (A true dictator has no interest in educating his people and would not last two months without the support of his own people.) I also can imagine that it is difficult for you to admit that you were mistaken - used, even - in view of the extent of the aggression, which our country suffered. But I am diverging; I will now answer your question.
I reproach you for not having left East Aleppo when the Syrian and the Russian army had repeatedly proposed guarded departure corridors to all civilians in order to evacuate us from East Aleppo, occupied between 2012-2016 by terrorist gangs, the NATO and Saudi-backed mercenaries destroying it and bombarding dozens of hospitals, the same terrorists who, at the beginning of the few peaceful demonstrations - demonstrations as exist in all the democratic countries of the world, - fired on civilians and policemen with snipers and the aim of provoking international uproar by accusing my government of firing on its own people!
I also criticize your departure abroad when our government with our army had liberated our city, when hundreds of thousands of Syrians sang in the street and returned from abroad. What did they offer you out there to betray your country? Quite simply, I reproach you for the defamation of my country when you became complicit and joined the wail of European [propaganda] sirens in order to prolong this dirty war and to justify "sanctions" against my people. Sanctions that will affect every child, every individual, every day. Sanctions that will affect people who've never attacked anyone.
Mom, I'm still Sama, which means "the sky"; your daughter, who loves freedom, who wants the sovereignty for my beloved Syria. I blame you for using me to make war-propaganda against my own country, for having repeated all the lies about false flag attacks and I now propose you join me, your daughter, and the immense majority of the population who are proud of their country's army and their government and who lost tens of thousands of young people freeing us from this imperialist-zionist attack.
Mom, I also suggest that you make another movie with your 500 hours of rush. This time letting Syrian people put comments on it instead of your European financiers: Your material is precious and for this I am grateful.
I am also grateful that you have given me the freedom to return to my country to discover it with my own eyes and I thank you first and foremost for allowing me to express myself.
Aleppo, January 2035,
Your daughter, Sama
All the blood you saw, and you think that regime cares ?? this is the most stupid
letter can some one write it after all the truths which showed in that film.
She even removed her hijab 🤔
I wonder how many children the husband has beheaded
her husband is friend with Abu Bahr, who beheaded a child and filmed it
Shame on Cathy Newman!!!!!
Hey Channel 4 News: Sack Cathy Newman for how poorly she interviewed Jordan Peterson on Jan 16, 2018 and got you 15 million criticisms!
Shame on you, Ben de Pear, for your poor editorial leadership and for not taking responsibility for how your staff Cathy Newman mishandled her interview on Jan 16, 2018.
Ben de Pear should resign for mishandling the aftermath of the poor C4 News interview on Jan 16, 2018 between Cathy so you’re saying Newman and Dr. Jordan Peterson
We send the mightiest condemnation available to humans for what Cathy Newman did on Jan 16, 2018. “So you’re saying...”
God Bless Bashar Al Assad and the Syrian Army
♡
No, he murdered many innocent civilians
Cathy Newman should be punished for her unethical interview on Jan 16, 2018
The only thing am thinking of is how her accent is funny 😅.
Am from iraq so we suffered worst than that more than once so yeah. Cheers
nobody has a monopoly on suffering. We are with Iraq, Syria, Palestine...everyone
What has happen to Iraq courage ? They had over 2000 peacefull protesters murdered ? Why no civil war ? Iraq has another corrupt and evil government. Not as bad as Saddam but bad enough to murder peaceful protesters. I wish you all the best. Hope good change comes.
You are funny!! We all suffered in a way or another and I wish us a better future.