THE LOST SOULS OF SYRIA

LES AMES PERDUES

By Stéphane MALTERRE, Garance LE CAISNE

THE PARTY FILM SALES - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2022

Stolen from the Syrian regime’s secret archives, Caesar, a military defector, revealed thousands of photos of anonymous corpses. An investigation piece at the heart of the Syrian death machine.

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IDFA 2022
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, GERMANY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ARABIC, FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 99 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Stéphane MALTERRE, Garance LE CAISNE
    • Writer(s)
    • Garance LE CAISNE, Stéphane MALTERRE
    • Producer(s)
    • Sébastien OMONO (LES FILMS D'ICI), Vanessa CISZEWSKI (KATUH STUDIO)
    • Synopsis
    • Stolen from the Syrian regime’s secret archives, 27 000 photos showing bodies of civilians detainees tortured to death are made public by a military defector codenamed Caesar. Who are the dead, what was their fate, why have they disappeared in Bachar Al Assad’s prisons?

      All across Europe, victims’ families, helped by international lawyers, activists and Caesar himself, seek for truth and justice, investigating the Syrian death machine and its highest officials. But torn between western governments’ political agenda and the ongoing terror spread by Damascus dictatorship, how far will they go?