PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Saeed Al Batal, director of the film Still Recording.

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Saeed Al Batal has a contagious smile and fierce eyes. He has told the world the terrible side of a war that does not seem to find an end. The powerfulness of images shot in real time is overwhelming and the intensity of hope that the film conveys will be in your heart forever.

Still Recording: Saeed is a young cinephile trying to teach film rules to other young people in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, but the reality they face is too harsh to respect any rules. Saeed’s friend, Milad, is on the other side of the fence; in Damascus, a city under the control of the Assad regime, finishing his studies in Fine Arts. At one point, Milad decides to leave the capital and joins Saeed in a Douma under siege, where they set up a local radio station and a recording studio. They hold the camera to film everything, until one day it is the camera that films them.