A shockingly raw combination of first-person reporting and personal video diary...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2023

... An impactful story about war. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 5, 2023

An amazing documentary, a sensory and immersive as any war film, filmed and voiced by from the frontline by a young wife and mother.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2022

For Sama is a reality-based horror film, a harrowing first person documentary...

| Oct 21, 2021

Images like those are likely to leave many viewers in tears, but there are also moments that prompt smiles...

| Oct 21, 2021

This very intimate and bold documentary from Waad-al-Kateab gives us a unique insight into the female experience of war.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 14, 2021

Films like For Sama need to be produced, but a new aesthetic and narrative approach is necessary to explore a conflict which is not as simple as many documentaries make it out to be.

| Jul 3, 2021

In this Syria reduced to ashes, life, embodied in image, manages to find its way to us and leave us moving, atrocious fragments, difficult to forget. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2020

A call for help to the international community, and an accusing finger. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2020

Chilling. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 28, 2020

For Sama is a work of brilliant wonder.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Aug 30, 2020

This deeply personal and intimate portrayal of lives being torn to shreds by a war on humanity is filled with horrific images that can disturb even the most stone-hearted people.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2020

We see the way children and parents respond to the pervasive fear, not wanting to be parted even if it is a matter of simple survival.

| Jul 31, 2020

It is an essential documentation of what is happening to other people in the world who are just like us, but through no fault of their own are forced into the most terrifying and impossible circumstances.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 15, 2020

I have rarely seen a documentary film as powerful as For Sama. The viewer is transported into the Syrian city of Aleppo to experience the very nasty civil war at first hand.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2020

A remarkable documentary and important contribution to a collective portrait of the Syrian tragedy...

| Feb 7, 2020

It's so very important that we take every opportunity we get to open the window into the world beyond our own lives to see stories like this one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2020

It is confronting and occasionally shocking. But also warm, moving, often surprisingly funny and utterly crucial.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2020

The result is a profoundly intimate yet horrifically heartbreaking film-a powerful document of love and injustice that traverses an array of emotions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2020

Be in no doubt, what you'll witness is devastating and heart-breaking. The sight of a mother processing the shock of finding her son who had just been killed by a bomb blast shows the barbarism of targeting civilians in all its casual cruelty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2020