THE LOST SOULS OF SYRIA
un film de Stéphane Malterre - HistoireStolen from the Syrian regime’s secret archives, 27 000 photos showing bodies of civilians detainees tortured to death are made public by a military defector codenamed Caesar. Who are the dead, what was their fate, why have they disappeared in Bachar Al Assad’s prisons?
All across Europe, victims' families, helped by international lawyers, activists and Caesar himself, seek for truth and justice, investigating the Syrian death machine and its highest officials. But torn between western governments’ political agenda and the ongoing terror spread by Damascus dictatorship, how far will they go?
SIDFA 2022 – Frontlight
Mondovisioni 2023
San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival 2023 – Amnesty International Award for Best Film
A film by Stéphane Malterre & Garance Lecaisne
Conseillère historique Garance Lecaisne
sortie cinéma le 3 mai 2023
Stolen from the Syrian regime’s secret archives, 27 000 photos showing bodies of civilians detainees tortured to death are made public by a military defector codenamed Caesar. Who are the dead, what was their fate, why have they disappeared in Bachar Al Assad’s prisons?
All across Europe, victims' families, helped by international lawyers, activists and Caesar himself, seek for truth and justice, investigating the Syrian death machine and its highest officials. But torn between western governments’ political agenda and the ongoing terror spread by Damascus dictatorship, how far will they go?
Data sheet
- Directed by
- Stéphane Malterre
- Year
- 2022
- Genre
- Histoire
- With
- Special Effects: Martin Ziebell & Sebastian Kaltmeyer
- Editing
- Sébastien Touta
- Author
- Garance Lecaisne & Stéphane Malterre
- Photography
- Thibault Delavigne & Beate Sherer BVK
- Sound
- Armin Dabbe & Frédéric Commault
- Mixage
- Chaussee SoundVision GmbH
- Producer
- Les Films d’Ici - Sébastien Onomo
- Co-producers
- Katuh Studio & Special Touch Studios
- Original soundtrack
- Gregor Keienburg & Raffael Seyfried
- Partners
- WDR
- Format
- DCP
- Manager of production
- Romain Mondon
- Langue
- English, Arabic, Spanish, French & German
- Available version
- Français & Anglais
- Length
- 104'
- International sales
- The Party Film Sales
- Distributor
- Dulac Distribution