Cries from Syria

About Cries from Syria

An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syria, through eyewitness and participant testimony. Children and parents recount the revolution, civil war, air strikes, atrocities and ongoing humanitarian aid crises, in a portrait of recent history and the consequences of violence.

Cries from Syria is a 2017 documentary film directed by Evgeny Afineevsky.

Hadi Al Abdullah appears as Himself, Raed Al Saleh as Himself, and Helen Mirren as Narrator. Released in January 2017, it runs 112 minutes.

In the United States it streams on DOCSVILLE.