Angelina Jolie Joins Refugee Documentary ‘We Dare to Dream’

Al-Kateab explored her own experience of war and displacement in her 2019 debut, For Sama, co-directed with Edward Watts, which premiered at South By Southwest and won the Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Eye award for best documentary, The film traces Al-Kateab’s journey as a young mother through the beginning of the Syrian war in 2012 through the fall of her hometown of Aleppo in December 2016. For Sama won the BAFTA for best documentary in 2020 and received an Oscar nomination.