Showing the Human Face of a War Too Often Ignored by the Media, IN SYRIA, a Timely, Harrowing Drama Arrives on DVD on 6/19

 

"Gripping from start to finish"

-- Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

 

"Brisk, well-acted and filled with tension"

-- Tom Long, The Detroit News 

 

SHOWING THE CIVILIAN SIDE OF A WAR TOO OFTEN IGNORED BY THE MEDIA, THIS HARROWING, TIMELY DRAMA "PUTS A HUMAN FACE ON SYRIA'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS[1]"

 

IN SYRIA

 

Street Date: June 19, 2018

DVD SRP: $24.95

 

Hiam Abbass (Lemon Tree) and Diamand Abou Abboud (The Insult)

Star in Director Philippe Van Leeuw's Chilling Study of a Household Under Siege; the DVD of This Berlin Film Festival Audience Award Winner Includes the Bonus Short Film, "Le Pain," Directed by Abbass

IN SYRIA (Official Trailer)

 

SYNOPSIS

 

Trapped in a city under siege, mother of three Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) struggles to keep her family and neighbors safe by converting her Damascus apartment into a barricaded shelter. But with war raging outside and snipers preventing any means of escape, their situation grows even more dire when armed bandits infiltrate the building and begin to threaten them from within.

 

Called "a haunting portrait of one family's fight to survive[2]", IN SYRIA is told from the perspective of one family who refuses to leave a home they love, bringing the conflict of massive scope to a remarkably personal and intimate level. A unique look at one of the most troubling humanitarian crises in recent memory, this Panorama Audience Award Winner at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival delivers a powerful cinematic experience that will stay with audiences long after the credits roll.

 

BONUS FEATURES 

• Bonus Short Film: Le Pain (Directed by Hiam Abbass | French with English subtitles | 19 minutes) -- In rural France, a woman goes out to buy bread for her family's lunch and makes a devastating discovery.

CAST

• Hiam Abbass ("Succession," "The State," Exodus: Gods and Kings)
• Diamand Abou Abboud (The Insult, Void)
• Juliette Navis ("The Tunnel") 

PROGRAM INFORMATION

 

Type: DVD

Running Time: 86 minutes

Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen

Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound / 2.0 Stereo

Language: Arabic with English Subtitles

 

About Film Movement

 

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide.  Film Movement's theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, Sergio Corbucci and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.