In Damascus, young pharmacist Sana is trying to give her son as normal a childhood as possible. It is 2012, the start of the Syrian war. Necessities are scarce. Sana hears there are bottles of gas in a nearby city. The search quickly gets out of hand, where Sana experiences kindness of strangers and her worst nightmare.
The Day I Lost My Shadow
DIRECTOR
Soudade Kaadan
RUN TIME
95 Minutes
LANGUAGE
Arabic
YEAR
2019
Country
Lebanon, France, Qatar, Syria
English Subtitles
Yes
Genre
Drama, War
Cast
Sawsan Arsheed, Reham Al Kassar, Samer Ismail
Classification
Restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult
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