‘For Sama,’ a mother’s Aleppo doc, moves Cannes to tears

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With the thud of shells exploding all around them in the dark, a terrified young couple sneak past lines of Syrian troops back into besieged Aleppo, their 6-month-old daughter Sama clutched in a sling. It is a key moment in Waad al-Kateab’s powerful and intimate documentary For Sama, a love letter to her infant daughter to explain what they lived through in that city of death and devastation just in case they didn’t make it.

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