سوريا التحدي SYRIA THE CHALLENGE © 2015 A Film by Olga Naccache

SYRIA THE CHALLENGE : A film by Olga Naccache (Nakkas)
Format: 16/9, Dolby Stereo, Caravan Films ©2015
(Link for Movie below has English subtitles, released publicly (with English subtitles) by permission of Olga Naccache.

A film made in 2015 by a professional, a Levatine patriot, one who members of our movement and in particular the Syrian Government need to support, encourage and assist in having this film shown around the world. It's not too late to do this and those "friends" of Syria who snubbed requests to assist with its disemination, to them I say...basita.

Let's not forget to support the artists from the region, they are soldiers for Syria too. This is an important piece of history.

Completed three years ago, within the movie are some timely reminders about what really happened in the early days, how Syrians felt and what these patriots want upheld as their treasured memories and values that make their nation great.

Film maker Olga Naccache states; "When I started to shoot this film in Beirut in June, 2011, the intellectuals, leftists and artists etc., told me that I was wasting my time and that the "revolution" would win in Syria. Although I know that the Syrian people want reforms and more freedom, the events in Syria proved to me to be another Islamist insurgency for "regime change", sponsored by Western actors and Arab allies."

Naccache explained that the characters of this film are ordinary workers, their ages ranging from 22 to 36 years old. She says "...they all fled the chaos of their countries, sorry the "Arab spring!"

Ahmed from Aleppo, Hussein from Deir El Zor, Bilal from Homs and Magid from Iraq appear progressively and, as the film unfolds, from 2011 to late 2015, they are the witnesses of dramatic events in Syria which they comment on it's nature of being a fake revolution to a fake civil war and real international sponsored terrorism for a New Middle East favourable and part of the US and Zionist project.

"In short, the film is a meditation about our troubled times, lost Arabism and new Ottomanism and Wahabbism…treason…patriotism…the role of Israel...the heroic Syrian Army.. and the muscle diplomacy of Russia to hamper these evil plans", Naccache reflects. It is an intimate portrait of young men who helplessly watch the barbaric destruction of Syria.

The film can be viewed at this link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7JG_1g1ITKddFJ3RkpaNXBWOEU/view
 

Information on author, director and producer Olga Naccache:
Born in 1953, Olga Naccache in her youth worked in Lebanon as a journalist for different news agencies after having studied journalism and languages in France. Her first documentay was Ashoura and she continued to produce various documentaries on Lebanon, also teaching Cinema at the BUC in 1984. She produced several documentaries during the war in Lebanon and later in Paris with her company Les Films de L'Odyssée. In 1994 she directed and produced Lebanon; Bits and Pieces for France 3 and the EU, in 1997, Turkish Woman Behind the Veil, and in 1999 she directed Halima for la Francophonie. From 2002 to 2004 she was an executive producer at Article Z, a documentary film company in Paris. In 2005 Naccache, after a period in France, moved back to Beirut and produced Mother, Lebanon and Me, in 2010, Istanbul Taxi, among other works.

In 2015 Naccache authored, directed and produced the film Syria The Challenge. It is this movie that we are featuring today as it has not yet received the recognition it deserves, especially since it is the work of an indigenous patriot who understands the region intimately. Let's support the work of patriots please.

Russian subtitles are found here:
https://vimeo.com/170382568

Arabic only, original here
https://vimeo.com/174471413

From Al Akhbar in 2009