
CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their real... (Full plot summary below)
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CRIES FROM SYRIA is a searing, comprehensive account of a brutal five-year conflict from the inside out, drawing on hundreds of hours of war footage from Syrian activists and citizen journalists, as well as testimony from child protesters, leaders of the revolution, human rights defenders, ordinary citizens, and high-ranking army generals who defected from the government. Their collective stories are a cry for attention and help from a world that little understands their reality or agrees on what to do about it. A documentary by Evgeny Afineevsky, director of the Oscar-nominated film WINTER ON FIRE, CRIES FROM SYRIA premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA documentary masterpiece chronicling the stages of the Syrian revolution and the staggering suffering of the Syrian people. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAnyone with even a shred social conscience should find the comprehensive Syrian civil war documentary “Cries From Syria” a truly devastating experience. |
| Village VoiceSerena DonadoniHis interviews are informative and captivating, but the film’s gut-punch immediacy comes from the astounding visuals caught by participants on digital cameras and cellphones, including shocking images of Assad’s torturers at work. |
| The PlaylistGary GarrisonA film that, while not especially pronounced in its structure or technical achievements, is nonetheless timely and devastating. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoIt should be required viewing for everyone in a position of power worldwide, especially those who would choose to enable genocide and stigmatize those who flee it. |
| National Catholic ReporterSr. Rose PacatteSet your DVR or watch "Cries from Syria" when it is broadcast tonight. The conflict may be complicated, but the brutality and gore of the killings of hundreds of thousands for the sake of one man, Assad, while the world watches, is not. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganThe film is called, and certainly contains, cries from Syria but in itself Afineevsky’s documentary is more of a shout, a piercing scream. |
| ThrillistChristopher CampbellThe best of the year's Syria documentaries, the film thoroughly chronicles the situation from revolution to civil war and the refugee migration. |
| The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijWhile Afineevsky generally manages to pack in a lot of detail, analysis, nuance and humanism, this is largely absent in the last chapter, which feels like it was rushed together at the last minute and didn’t receive the same amount of time, care and thought as the film’s previous chapters |
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIf the idea of cozying up to Russia strikes you as harmless, or all those Syrian refugees are too far away to seem real, the HBO documentary Cries From Syria is something you ought to watch. |