Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.
Direction
Fayyad films in actual war zone with impossible intimacy.
Cinematography
Tight spaces lit by surgical lamps and phone flashlights.
Acting
Dr. Amani's exhaustion and defiance—no performance, just being.
Director
Feras Fayyad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fayyad's previous Oscar-nominated doc 'Last Men in Aleppo' got his friends killed; he filmed The Cave while receiving death threats.
Ghouta was under total siege—no food, medicine, or escape. The 'cave' was literally safer than any building above ground.
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