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Amer and Ragda met in a Syrian prison where they had been sent as opponents of the Assad regime. 20 years and three children later, the British filmmaker Sean McAllister enters their lives. Ragda is back in jail and everyone is ecstatic when she is unexpectedly released. The family needs Ragda, above all her three-year old son Bob. But things don‘t calm down. McAllister is arrested and his film material confiscated – with dramatic consequences.

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SEAN MCALLISTER (*1956) verließ mit 16 die Schule und arbeitete in Fabriken, bis er eine Ausbildung an der National Film School begann. Seit 1996 macht er Dokumentarfilme für die BBC und Channel 4. Er drehte in Israel, Irak, Japan und Syrien. Mit A Syrian Love Story gewann er den Hauptpreis beim Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015.

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