A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.
Direction
Dual directors balance survivor and perpetrator testimony with surgical precision.
Editing
75 minutes feels both mercifully brief and devastatingly complete.
Director
Sara Obeidat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film was completed just months before Assad's fall in December 2024, making its 'ongoing' framing suddenly historical. Directors had to recontextualize without reshooting.
Syrian prison testimonies have historically circulated through informal networks—this marks one of the first theatrical documentaries to platform both sides of the cell door for international audiences.
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