Event time:
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 3:30pm
Location:
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street
Event description:
Crisis in Syria:
A look into the female experience of war
Film Screening of
For Sama
by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Followed by a Q&A with the director
Director Waad Al-Kateab joins Filmmaker and Professor Thomas Allen Harris for a discussion of her film For Sama.
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad Al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets married, and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
Supported by the Yale Film and Media Studies Program; African American Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale