Regardless of the medium, nonetheless, there have been dozens of worthy films, from the aforementioned blockbusters to auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino providing some of the greatest work of their careers, and on-the-rise visionaries like Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Taika Waititi, the Safdie brothers, Trey Edward Shults and Lulu Wang persevering with to impress. This documentary broke me. Extremely onerous to watch, Waad al-Kateab’s heartrending cinematic love letter to her daughter provides us an unflinching take a look at the human price of the Syrian struggle. Set in the besieged and crumbling historic city of Aleppo, For Sama is requisite viewing at a time when, tragically, far off” conflicts like this barely register on our headline-saturated radars. Movies like this reveal the facility of films to show and doc what we dare not ignore. There are harrowing images from For Sama I don’t know that I’ll ever get … Read more