Mattar Ismaeel wins the Samir Kassir Award for the freedom of the press -for the best audiovisual report 2016 with his film "Love during the siege". This is the third consecutive year that a film produced by Bidayyat wins The Samir Kassir award! Congratulations to Mattar, and freedom to all the besieged in Syria.

About The film:

More than two years have passed and the Syrian regime still besieges the Southern suburbs of Damascus where a population of more than 100,000 people live until today. During those two years, more than 200 died of hunger and the lack of medical care. The remaining still live under the siege, surviving only by what grows from the earth such as grass and other green leafs and vegetables. They fight the siege and hunger through hope and love they have learned to find during the hardest of time