THE JOURNALIST AND HER JAILERS (2022)

Luna Watfa, a journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on the men charged with mass detention and torture in Assad’s prisons, at the world’s first trial against members of the Syrian regime, for crimes against humanity.

Originallanguage: Arabic, English, German

Subtitles: english

Length: 83min 

Festival premiere: 26.03.23 One World International Film Festival Prague

 

Cast and Crew

Director: Adithya Sambamurthy Writers: Adithya Sambamurthy, Luna Watfa  Production: Ira Tondowski, Alex Tondowski/ Tondowski Films GbR DoP: Adithya Sambamurthy Location Sound: Adithya Sambamurthy, Hannes Marget, Johannes Grehl, Alexander Czart Editor: Petja von Bredow Illustration/ Animation: Audrey Fletcher Sound Design: Karl Atteln Sound Design Animation: Frank Schreiber Music: Frank Schreiber

TV Channel: ARD unter der Federführung von SWR und BR 

Commissioning Editors: Simone Reuter (SWR), Bernd Seidl (SWR), Petra Felber (BR), Martin Kowalczyk (BR), Thomas Beyer (MDR), Dirk Neuhoff (NDR), Rolf Bergmann (RBB), Jutta Krug (WDR)

Support: Medienförderung Rheinland-Pfalz, MEDIA - Creative Europe, Documentary Campus