Portugal, Romania, Germany
Mădălina Roșca, Reem Karssli
For over 15 years, Little Syria follows the quest of a brother, his sister, and her boyfriend, trapped between Syria, from which they fled for their lives, and a Europe that seems at times to embrace them and at others to push them back.
Mădălina Roșca is a Romanian documentary maker, collective artist, film scholar, and media activist. She has years of experience in cultural management, as director of the socio-cultural space Make a Point and as the former director of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “One World Romania”. She studied film in Bucharest, London, and Berlin, and holds a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for her work, “Seeing with Feeling,” on documenting revolutions around the world.
Filmography
Belina (2019); The Perfect Jail — Ciudanovita (2008); Cinemaniacii (2006)
Reem Karssli explores the documentary genre in various media, and her works have been shown all over the world (Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ UK, Young Vic Theatre/ London, DOK Leipzig Festival/ Germany). She contributed as a researcher to media projects concerning refugees, such as “Voices of Refugees” (for BBC Media Action) and “Linking the Fields” (Zaatari Refugee Camp, UNHCR Headquarters of Amman and Zarka).
Reem holds a Masters Degree in Documentary from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Filmography
Every Day, Every Day (2013)
