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Syria: No Strings
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Syria: No Strings

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Kilis, a small town on Turkey's border with Syria, has taken in an estimated 40,000 refugees by 2013, a number still climbing, and most of the arrivals are children. This Al Jazeera Witness film follows three of them, Mohamad, Noor and Farid, each carrying a different version of the same displacement, and the Syrian teachers trying to help them process what they have lived through. The method is unexpected: puppetry, starting with simple hand puppets in makeshift classrooms and building toward an elaborate puppet film produced abroad, used as a way to get children to voice trauma they cannot otherwise name. The camera stays close to the classrooms and the kids themselves rather than officials or aid statistics, watching the teachers improvise support for a crisis that outpaces their training. There is no resolution offered, only the daily work of trying to give displaced children something like a childhood back. The film treats the puppetry not as a gimmick but as the clearest window into what these kids are actually carrying.