5 Seasons of Revolution
An aspiring video journalist in her twenties who finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life and people around her, mainly during a bright sunny day in Damascus. But with the uprising in Syria, Lina was slowly absorbed into documenting the impact on people’s lives. It didn’t take long before events escalated, and arrests, torture, and potentially life-threatening situations became a reality for Lina to negotiate on a daily basis. She had to adapt. She invented personas and aliases. They each helped her navigate life under a new norm. What was a simple plan, turned into a complex web of identities, which seemed then a small price in exchange for her liberty to continue to hold the camera.
Technical Specifications
Year 2023
Length 95 min
Language Arab, English
Production company No Nation Films in coproduction with Piraya Film and Docmakers, in association with Anonymous Content and Proaction Films
Production country Germany, Syria, Norway, The Netherlands, Qatar
Sales/Distribution Anonymous Content (North America), Deckert Distribution (rest of the world)
Website https://no-nation.de/portfolio/5seasons/
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24082348/
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Awards
Festivals
2023
Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Documentary Competition (opening film) (world premiere)
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto
DOK.Fest München
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel
Her Docs Film Festival, Warsaw
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
Nordic/Docs, Fredrikstad