9 Days: From My Window in Aleppo (Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen & Thomas Vroege, 2015)

9 Days: From My Window in Aleppo

Floor van der Meulen, Issa Touma, Thomas Vroege, Syria, The Netherlands, 2015, 13’

One morning in August 2012, renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma saw young men lugging sandbags into his street. It turned out to be the start of the Syrian uprising in the city of Aleppo. Touma grabbed his camera and spent nine days holed up in his apartment, recording what was happening outside. An unprecedented glimpse into a war that has been raging for three years now.

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This film was part of yanco’s short film programme “Reclaiming Archives”

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