Aleppo, December 2016. The city had been under siege for weeks. Civilians were dying daily. Doctors of the World were still there, inside it, working.
The brief was not to explain what Medecins du Monde does. It was to make people feel why it matters. Director Emily Kai Bock shot in conditions designed to recreate, as honestly as possible, what it felt like to be in that city at that moment. Most of the cast were street-cast, non-actors chosen for the specific vulnerability they carried.
The film builds on an apparent paradox: a voiceover speaks about the beauty of the world while we watch a city in ruins. The resolution arrives with a wounded girl resuscitated by a volunteer doctor risking her own life to be there.
Finding the beauty of the world, in the darkest moments for humanity.
D&AD 2018 : 1 Graphite Pencil
Club des DA 2018 : 3 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
GP de la Communication extérieure 2018 : 1 Prize (Craft)
