Insyriated

Berlinale 2017
Panorama Audience Award
Label Europa Cinema
Toronto IFF
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.

Berlinale 2017
Panorama Audience Award
Label Europa Cinema
Toronto IFF
2017

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