Syria’s Children of War is not a sad film about the poor kids under fire. It is about exploring what fire, death, war and fear can mean to kids. They play, they talk, they sing, they draw, they stare at you. Some cry, some smile, some even laugh. Others are more quite, in wonder, or with a wisdom at times lacking in adults. All these children are from Homs, the central city known to be the capital of the revolution. Few are in their homes at the time they are filmed. From shelters, relatives’ homes, hotel rooms, or underground hide-­outs, they tell us very little of what their lives once were like, more of what they have seen, learned and what they ask of us... adults, that is.





Maya Milani is a photojournalist, videographer & director. She is the pseudonym of the 20 something independent filmmaker. She finished her undergrads in media in Syria and pursued her MA in film in the UK, then returned in time for the start of the sweeping Arab Spring. Maya had several experiments with short docs prior to the revolution, but Syria’s Children of War was her first short to be broadcast on television. She is currently working on a feature-length observational documentary about the day to day experience of living a revolution.







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• This film has been previously screened as part of the 2013 Dox Box Festival, in the occupied Golan Heights, Ramallah, Cairo & Trieste.