A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
For Sama For Sama
For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
What's On
The Voice of Hind Rajab Sawt Hind Rajab
Kaouther Ben Hania
Friday, 16. 01. 2026 / 16:20 / Main Hall
A harrowing reconstruction of the attempted rescue of a Palestinian girl, intertwining real emergency call recordings with dramatised scenes in a call centre. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film.
Additional Screening
Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Friday, 16. 01. 2026 / 17:30 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.