‘When The News Breaks You’ is a documentary on journalists working in the Middle East, mostly Arab journalists, and their struggle not to remain silent but to show the world what is really happening. A struggle that, in recent years, is taking place on increasingly uneven ground. In the film, which is an amalgam of interviews, archive footage and a few re-enactment scenes, nine journalists, all of them with many years of experience, share their stories, the news that ultimately defined them.

Through the blending of stories and locations, a sense of a common narrative emerges that flows between the characters and unites their testimonies, so similar, yet so different. Apart from the protagonists talking about their job, their motivation, and the risks they have to take, the documentary examines major topics such as press freedom, double standards, discrimination, local journalism, PTSD and above all, the systemic targeting of journalists in Palestine and the wider Middle East region.