The Ultimate Picture Palace
Jeune Street
Cowley Road
Oxford
OX4 1BN
Sep 26
UPP Cinema
6:45 PM
Director: Sean McAllister
Country: UK
Year: 2015
Running time: 1h 20m
Winner of the Sheffield Doc/Fest this affecting film charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom in the West. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
Amer met Raghda in a Syrian prison cell 15 years ago. Over months they communicated through a tiny hole they’d secretly made in the wall. They fell in love and when released got married and started a family together. This film tells the poignant story of their family torn apart by the tyrannical Assad dictatorship.