For Sama's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
This ragged, remarkable act of cinematic witnessing sees a young woman finding her voice ? as an activist, as an artist and as a parent ? above the crashing, whistling din of warfare. Amid a surfeit of devastating reports from the ruins, it?s one we haven?t yet heard.
The Wrap
Essentially, the film?s approach is to say, ?This is for the children".
Indiewire
A bracingly horrific yet resiliently beautiful documentary about al-Kateab?s experience as a woman, a patriot, and a mother living in the ruined heart of Aleppo during the ongoing war in Syria.
The Hollywood Reporter
Revisiting some of the events that marked Aleppo?s final year under siege, as well as those that led up to them, the film offers up a rare firsthand account of war from a strictly female perspective, focusing on how conflict affects families, and, especially, the hundreds of innocent victims that are children.
Vulture
'For Sama' doesn?t feel like raw footage ? it has been carefully shaped, with a bit of movie-ish suspense during the final hours, when the last of the families in East Aleppo were told they could surrender to the regime but were fired on anyway.