Twenty-five years ago Adib, a promising young officer in the Syrian military police, suddenly left Damascus under suspicious circumstances. Abandoning the love of his life Fatima, he made his way to Canada and wiped the slate clean. When his daughter Muna suddenly disappears in Damascus, his past threatens to violently catch up to him. Teaming up with a Canadian emissary, Adib must now confront the turmoil he thought he left behind in order to find Muna.
Acting
Siddig carries the whole film on his exhausted shoulders
Cinematography
Damascus looks gorgeous even when it's threatening you
Director
Ruba Nadda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ruba Nadda shot this in just 24 days in South Africa pretending to be Syria, because filming in actual Damascus was obviously impossible by 2011.
The film awkwardly straddles pre-Arab Spring optimism and post-revolution chaos; Nadda wrote it before 2011 but shot it during, making its politics feel accidentally prescient and already dated.
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