OUR ACTIVITIES IN TURKEY
Turkey currently hosts more than 3 million Syrian refugees, but the issue of racism towards Syrian refugees continue to rise, especially in the last couple of years.
In the UK and the US, screening For Sama had a positive impact on enlightening the public on the important issues in the Syrian story, however, the film has not been distributed in Turkey to date. We’re putting a lot of efforts into raiseing awareness about why we’ve become refugeed, and to stand against racisms. Towards those efforts and using the For Sama film, we’ve been increasing our presence in Turkey throughout a wide range of activities.
TRT international documentary awards
For Sama won the special prize in the international films category at the TRT international documentary awards festival in 2022.
Screenings
In total, we’ve helped organize 3 key screenings of For Sama in Turkey, another 10 screenings were organized by For Sama’s global distributor Autlook
The 15 June cultural event
”The 15 June film week was started by a screening of the film For Sama” Anadolu agency. This film week was to advocate and support democracy and freedom
Panels and discussions
Waad and Hamza participated in more than one panel to answer the audiences’ questions, hear their comments, and follow up on why For Sama is important to be shown in Turkey
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Turkish
One lady from the Turkish audience commented after seeing For Sama that no body will see the For Sama film and still ask why Syrians have come Turkey. Expressing how moved she was by watching the film.
Many reports and media mentions were made after the screenings, some of which showed the incredibly powerful effect the film had on the audience. The following videos are in Arabic and Turkish as they were shot by local media outlets