Watani: My Homelandbegan as a documentary about Syria as seen through the eyes of its children.
And when anybody from this family has suffering or pain or anything, we must help.
This is my message."
If she would have had a choice, she would have stayed.
“It’s so, so hard.
I hope to have some medicine to forget everything.
After this, life will besogood,” she says before bringing up Abu Ali.
“My husband was everything in my life my friend, my family.
And then in front of my eyes, they take him, and I can’t do anything.”
“I feel I am not a human,” she continues.
“I am a machine.
But I must complete this life with my children.
I lost everything, but I don’t want to lose the future of my children.”
The order was later temporarily blocked, most recently by a federal appeals panel Feb. 9.
“They should be rescued, but they’re being put in the same box.”
He’s hopeful, though, that Americans will continue to fight xenophobic policies.
“The movement started and I don’t think it’s going to stop.”
Watani: My Homelandis now playing in select theaters.
Watch the trailer above.
