
Undercover Syria
Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Wael Dabbous spend two weeks living undercover inside Syria, embedded with members of the opposition movement working to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Moving secretly between safe houses, they meet protesters who have gone into hiding and civilians wounded in military crackdowns, filming conditions that no accredited foreign press could reach at the time. One of the film's central locations is a makeshift hospital set up inside a private home, where doctors treat gunshot and shrapnel wounds knowing that being caught doing so could mean arrest or worse. The footage is unpolished by necessity, shot on hidden or handheld cameras as the crew moves quickly to avoid checkpoints and informants. What emerges is less a broad political overview than a ground-level record of what it costs ordinary Syrians, doctors, and activists to defy the state, filmed by two journalists taking the same risks as the people they are covering.