
Through Abdullah's Eyes
Syria's civil war has leveled entire towns, killed close to half a million people, and left countless others missing or displaced. This film follows the conflict through the perspective of Abdullah, using his experience as a throughline to show what has happened to ordinary Syrians caught in the fighting. Interviews and on-the-ground footage trace the physical destruction of neighborhoods and the toll on families, while the film also looks at the humanitarian response, the aid groups and workers trying to reach people trapped by the violence and the scale of need that response has struggled to match. Rather than offering a broad political history of the war, the film stays close to individual testimony, letting Abdullah's account carry the weight of numbers that are otherwise hard to grasp. It is a portrait of a country in ruin told at human scale, through one set of eyes rather than a map of front lines.