A Syrian Love Story

The documentary is about Amer and Raghda. The two of them met fifteen years earlier in a Syrian prison. After their release they married and had children. Sean McAllister began filming in Syria in 2009. Raghda was a political prisoner at the time. Amer was looking after the children alone. Then the uprisings began across the region. Raghda was released in 2011. But the pressure did not ease, it grew. The director was arrested for filming. After that the family had to leave the country. The documentary was shot over five years. The account follows both an uprising and a marriage. Both are tested in the same years. Sean McAllister’s seventy six minute documentary of 2015 is a French, British, Syrian and Lebanese coproduction.