MIGRANT MOTHERS OF SYRIA

By Anna FAHR

MORNING BIRD PICTURES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2020

Migrant Mothers of Syria is an interactive documentary that prompts users to put the broken pieces of two homes back together while exploring six short documentaries featuring Amani and Manal, two Syrian refugee mothers who are striving to rebuild their lives in Lebanon.

Festivals
& Awards

Doc Edge 2020
Exhibition
Yorkton 2020
Best New Media
Webfest Berlin 2020
Best Non-Fiction
Mimesis Documentary Festival 2020
Documentary Arts - Jury Award & Audience Award
Lift-Off Showcase Extravaganza 2020
Independent Shorts Awards 2020
Honorable mention: Best Web & New Media
Accolade Global Film Competition 2020
Award of Merit: Experimental
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Transmedia, Social issues
    • Countries
    • CANADA, LEBANON
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 22 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anna FAHR
    • Writer(s)
    • Anna FAHR
    • Producer(s)
    • Anna FAHR (MORNING BIRD PICTURES), Evan JONES (Stitch Media)
    • Synopsis
    • Inspired by the 1936 photograph, Migrant Mother, by American photographer Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mothers of Syria prompts users to put the broken pieces of two homes back together while exploring six short documentaries about two Syrian mothers. By doing so, users are offered a glimpse into the lives these women left behind in Syria, their daily struggles as refugees in Lebanon and their hopes and dreams for the future of their children. By the end of the experience, users are left to reflect on notions of home, migration and exile as being part of a shared human experience that ultimately affects us all.