Far from Bashar - Now Streaming on Docuseek
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Far from Bashar
73 min. | Closed Captioned
A film by Pascal Sanchez
"The film focuses on their courage, humanity and love for one another as they adjust to life in a new world while coping with the guilt of being survivors and the concern for the people they left behind. As Sanchez has stated, the film can’t change the horrors that occurred in Syria, but it may open our eyes to those affected by it."
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Several years ago, after taking part in the mass uprisings against Bashar al-Assad, Adnan al-Mhamied had to flee Syria with his wife, Basmah, and their four children. Now settled in Montreal, they’ve adjusted to life in a peaceful city, but Adnan and Basmah still fear for loved ones back in Syria whose status and whereabouts remain unknown.

Far from Bashar chronicles an endearing family as they go about their lives, tormented by a distant and seemingly interminable conflict. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of kilometers away, that continues to affect their lives. Far from Bashar is a beautiful and delicately observed chronicle of a family’s new beginnings and the past that continues to plague them.

The Syrian war claimed more than 350,000 lives, with at least 50,000 more people missing or detained by the regime. Capturing the apparent ordinariness of life today for the al-Mahamids, Far from Bashar is a moving testimonial to the love that unites them and from which they draw the strength to go on, far from Bashar.
Far from Bashar, from National Film Board of Canada, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.

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