50 Feet from Syria (2015)

Directed by

Skye Fitzgerald

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

39 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Syrian-American surgeon travels to a hospital near the Turkey-Syria border to treat wounded civilians during the civil war. The film follows his work and the patients he helps in the makeshift facility.

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What happens

50 Feet from Syria is a 2015 short-documentary film about a Syrian-American orthopedic surgeon Hisham Bismar who travels to the Turkey-Syrian border situated Al-Amal Hospital during the Syrian civil war. Directed by Skye Fitzgerald, 50 Feet from Syria was shortlisted with ten other documentaries from 74 entries submitted to the 88th Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Subject category. The final five nominations were scheduled to be announced on January 14, 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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