Film · 2025

Surviving Syria’s Prisons

Name: Surviving Syria’s Prisons
Director: Sara Obeidat
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-06-10
Rating: 8

75 min · Directed by Sara Obeidat

Documentary

8.01
ratings

A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.

Cast

Sara Obeidat

Self : Narrator (voice over)

Shadi Haroun

Self : Hadi Haroun's brother

H

Hadi Haroun

Self : Shadi Haroun's brother

Crew

Director: Sara Obeidat

, Sasha Joelle Achilli

Producer

Sara Obeidat, Sasha Joelle Achilli

Writer

Sasha Joelle Achilli, Sara Obeidat

Details

Studios: BBC Two, ARTE, BBC Studios
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages: Arabic, English
Release: June 10, 2025

Themes

prisoncivil warpoliticstraumatorturetearsoppressionsyriarevelationsdocumentaryhistorypower

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