Insyriated
Panorama Audience Award
2017
Insyriated
A Film by Philippe Van Leeuw
2017 - France/Belgium - Drama - 1.85 - 85 min.
with Hiam Abbas
Language: Arabic
Produced by Guillaume Malandrin & Serge Zeitoun
Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turned her flat into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, trying to protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into deadly zones, and burglars break in to claim their dreadful bounties, maintaining the thin balance of routine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death.
Panorama Audience Award
2017
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