Reunited
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020
June 11 - 20, 2020
This is a story of love across borders, and the compromises a family must make when it is torn apart by circumstances beyond its control. When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children.
Reunited is now playing through June 20! Get tickets here.
Live Q&A on Saturday June 20, 3:30 PM EDT w/ filmmaker Mira Jargil, Professor at Princeton & NPR’s Middle East correspondent Deborah Amos, and HRW’s Senior Turkey Researcher Emma Sinclair-Webb. Register for free here.
This is a story of love across borders, and the compromises a family must make when it is torn apart by circumstances beyond its control. When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children. Rana is in Denmark, Mukhles is in Canada, and their young sons Jad and Nidal, ages 11 and 17, are stuck alone in Turkey. Through small everyday moments captured on video calls and home movies, director Mia Jargil paints an intimate and loving portrait of a family in limbo, navigating frustrating twists and turns at the hands of Kafkaesque bureaucracies, combatting physical distance to retain familial bonds and connection.
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