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A documentary about a family's difficult search to discover the fate of a journalist abducted to the jails of ISIS in August 2013.
A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told through the story of searching for the filmmaker's brother Mohammed Nour Matar. Mohammed was a 24-year-old photographer when he went missing in 2013, taken after a car-bombing at the railway station in Raqqa. Using cameras during the search, the family depicts their stories in the Syrian city of Raqqa and the abandoned prisons of ISIS.

Credits

Director
Amer Almatar
Screenwriter
Amer Almatar
Producer
Talal Derki

About the Director

Amer Mattar
Amer Mattar is a Syrian documentary filmmaker, journalist and writer, born in 1986. He started working as a freelance journalist in 2002, predominantly writing political satire and cultural reviews. Since the uprising in Syria, Mattar started documentary filmmaking. He co-directed and produced a handful of short documentaries that have been broadcast by regional Pan-Arab TV stations. Mattar is als
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