Still Recording (2018)

In 2011, twenty-year-old engineering student Saeed left Damascus for Douma in Eastern Ghouta to join the Syrian revolution. He was later joined by his friend Milad, a fine arts student, painter, and sculptor. In a Douma liberated by rebels, revolutionary enthusiasm swept through the youth, only to be met by war and siege. For over four years, Saeed and Milad filmed a daily life defined by bombings, children playing among graffiti-covered ruins, laughter, music, death, madness, and survival. It is an x-ray of an unconquered territory—a remarkably dense look at war, captured with a gripping sense of cinema and humanity.