“A film is only interesting if the whole process becomes a dialogue, that then challenges the language of filmmaking” says Danish filmmaker Andreas Dalsgaard.

In the case of The War Show, the challenges, formal and ethical, were many: the term “raw” footage was rarely more apt than in the case of the 200 hours of video diaries handed over by co-director Obaidah Zytoon to Dalsgaard. Find out how their collaboration wove intimate snapshots of pre-war innocence into a visceral account of Syria’s descent into violent conflict.

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