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The jury of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival has announced that the Syrian film “The Cave” has won the Public Choice Award for Best Documentary at this year's festival, which goes on the vote of thousands of attendees at all the events of the festival. The Syrian crisis proves that it can still attract world attention above all, even after nearly nine years.
Underground hospital
The film, produced by the National Geographic Network, is about a Syrian hospital where the people of Eastern Ghouta were treated and treated during the continuous shelling of the city by Syrian regime forces. The heroes of the film are doctors, doctors and nurses of the hospital "Al Kahf" who risked their lives to save the lives of children, men and women of Ghouta.
At the forefront of these heroes is the young Syrian doctor, Amani, who was elected by the hospital staff to manage his affairs, thus becoming responsible for dozens of doctors and specialists and tens of thousands of patients.
Through a relentless follow-up of daily life in this underground hospital, and from 2016 to 2018, the film takes us to a nightmare world where we experience the suffering of the Ghouta and the heroic actions by which they try to avoid death at every moment.
Looking for life
A special feature of this film is the attempt by Syrian director Firas Fayyad to preview the beauty of the souls of the people of Ghouta even in the most difficult moments. Aesthetic cadres so that the filmmakers tell us the tale at many times without words.
I can't be more happy, humble and proud with this great honer from @TIFF_NET. great thanks goes for @ amalalsham87 to her fight for change. Thank you @natgeodocs for your big heart support and for my great team who put all their creativity effort and love in this hard journey. https://t.co/cKXemmn6Oi - Feras Fayyad (@FerasFayyad) September 15, 2019 |
This beauty is especially summarized in the film's heroine, Dr. Amani, who Fayyad dedicated to her thanks in a tweet following the announcement of the Toronto Festival awards. She is often questioned about her abilities, and thirdly as a pediatrician first and then a young doctor in charge of a fully functioning underground hospital.
This daily suffering was expressed by Dr. Amani in one of her tweets preceding the screening of the film at the Toronto Festival, in which she reminded the world of a year after the tragedy of Ghouta, in which the regime of Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, resulting in the death of many of the children of Ghouta.
Like today, the bodies of the children filled the Ghouta |
Real Heroes
At the heart of all this, the real hero of this film are the people of Ghouta, who have withstood the constant shelling and internationally prohibited weapons, as confirmed by the young Syrian doctor, "Selim", one of the protagonists of the film and a prominent member of the medical staff of the hospital "Cave."
This is why everyone hopes that this film will win an audience award from a large Toronto-size festival, as well as being nominated by National Geographic to compete in the Oscar in the category of best documentary, an international impact, which ultimately reduces the suffering of the people of Ghouta And behind them all the people of Syria.
The National Geographic Network announced that the film will be screened from October 18, and director Firas Fayyad was nominated by the Academy Award for best documentary for his last film "Aleppo Men of Aleppo" in 2017.