Nearly two decades ago, Megan Mylan co-directed “Lost Boys of Sudan,” a memorable documentary chronicling hope and upheaval among seven young men who landed in the U.S. after surviving village mass…
co-directed “Lost Boys of Sudan,” a memorable documentary chronicling hope and upheaval among seven young men who landed in the U.S. after surviving village massacres during that nation’s second civil war. Enough has happened in the interval that Mylan’s new “” arrives in a very different climate, where such conflicts and their refugees are sociopolitical issues the world over.
In a film sans explanatory text or narration, we seldom get much detail on how exactly the principals came to be where they are, or the circumstances of their initial flight. Nor is there general background on the overall Syrian situation, which has been one of violent struggle between different internal factions for just over a decade now.
Still more desperate is Samra, whose husband was arrested for his regime affiliations some time ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Now she toils as a fieldworker in Turkey, forced to leave 12-year-old eldest Fayez in charge of the other four kids each day. It’s a strait so dire she’s considering putting them all into the institutional care of an orphanage, an option premature “man of the house” Fayez derides as “a life of humiliation.
A different case is that of middle-aged Diaa, who remains with her husband and disabled youngest child in northwest Syrian city Masyaf. But she seems to spend nearly all her time on digital devices, trying to dig up any word about elder son Mohammad. They sent him to Egypt to escape the “death and destruction,” but he sneaked back without telling them. Now, five years later, they can only hope he is among detainees liberated from ISIS, eligible for a prisoner exchange program.
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