Last Men in Aleppo
De sidste mænd i Aleppo
Synopsis
After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo’s remaining residents prepare themselves for a siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have remained in the city to help their fellow citizens-and experience daily life, death, struggle and triumph in a city under fire.
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Awards & Festivals
Academy Awards
2018 | Nominee: Best Documentary Feature
Sundance Film Festival
2017 | Winner: Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Documentary)
Independent Spirit Awards
2018 | Nominee: Best Documentary
CPH-DOX
2017
This is an essential film, but it is also a terribly dispiriting one. We all navigate challenges and endure loss, but “Last Men in Aleppo” is likely to make you almost ashamed of your comforts and leave you with a feeling of impotence. I suspect it’s the filmmakers’ wish that once those initial feelings ebb, moviegoers will ask what they can do to help. This picture doesn’t offer hope; its aim is to compel us to create some.
Glenn Kenny
May 02, 2017
Highlighting moments of visual poetry may seem at first like a misstep: Who has time for aesthetics when people are literally dying in front of the lens? But it actually adds to the horror. The film has plenty of unflinching truth and emotion and outrage, and it ends with a gut punch. It’s the subtly unreal quality of what we’re seeing throughout, however, that truly highlights the obscenity of war.
Bilge Ebiri
May 02, 2017
The film moves with urgency in the thick of the immediate aftermath of bombings and one staggering missile attack, but it’s more broadly concerned with portraying Aleppo as a community of neighbors and colleagues. Fayyad keenly gets at the gravity of Khaled and Mahmoud’s attachment to their home.
Christopher Gray
May 02, 2017
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