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BATATA

By Noura KEVORKIAN

Documentary - Completed 2022

An unprecedented film covering 10 years in the life of a determined Syrian Muslim woman stuck in a refugee camp in Lebanon, unable to return home.

Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2022

International Competition

Hot Docs 2022

Audience Award Top 10 Films + Director's Guild Jury Prize special mention

Thessaloniki IFF 2022

Amnesty International Award nomination

DOK.fest MUNICH 2022

Official Competition - Horizonte

E Tudo Verdade 2022

International Competition

Doc Edge 2022

Official Selection

Carthage 2022

Oscar-qualifying Best Feature Documentary (Tanit d'or) + Human Rights Award

Durban 2022

Amnesty Award + Best Feature Documentary special mention

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Epic, Historical
- Countries
- CANADA, LEBANON, QATAR
- Languages
- ARABIC, ARMENIAN
- Duration
- 126 mn
- Director(s)
- Noura KEVORKIAN
- ISAN
- 0000-0006-3B9C-0000-5-0000-0000-M
- Producer(s)
- Paul SCHERZER (SIX ISLAND PRODUCTIONS), Noura KEVORKIAN (Saaren Films)
- Synopsis
- 2022 Marks the 10th anniversary of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. With over 6 million refugees, it remains the largest human forced migration crisis of our times, but sadly not the last. Shot over an unparalleled 10 years, Syrian-Lebanese director Noura Kevorkian’s intimate camera follows the plight of Maria and her family of Syrian migrant workers who find themselves unable to return back to their hometown of Raqqa Syria. Unique among the numerous refugee stories to date, BATATA captures an entire decade while documenting not just the age-old conflict between two nations, but the unbending spirit of a woman who puts family ahead of all else.