As a personal look on a group of friends whose world turned to hell, The War Show is as effective/poetic/powerful as any doc on Syria #tdf19
That's what The War Show starts like, at least, but it develops into a compelling, conflicted pacifist look on the resistance & war. #tdf19
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Imagine taking up a cam to film your hippie friends protesting a regime; then: crackdown, torture, rebellion, extremism, exile. Any country.
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"Obie never expected to survive any of this."
@nofilmschool interview w The War Show's co-director on the process http://nofilmschool.com/2016/09/war-show-andreas-dalsgaard-obaidah-zytoon-tiff-2016 … -
In a depressing scene, she visits Kafranbel just as it'd given up on the int'l community; divided btn supporting Nusra & secular demands
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Not long after that, unveiled on hidden cam, she stands up to jihadists bullying her to leave Saraqeb. "You're as bad as the regime's thugs"
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"Humanizing" is bandied about a lot for films like The War Show. It's quite the opposite: *we* become dehumanized by overlooking the people.
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Affecting, sincere, cohesive docs that manage to bridge the personal with the epochal (re-)humanize audiences, not their subjects.
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The War Show is also very effective at showcasing war propaganda. "Some just blew things up on camera to get paid." https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-war-show-review-1201848749/ …
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The filmmaker found one of her disappeared friends in this trove of detainee photos; tortured/killed by the regime https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/12/16/syria-stories-behind-photos-killed-detainees …
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