Film Review: THE CAVE (Denmark/Syria/Germany/USA/Qatar 2019) ***

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A Thai boys soccer team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.

Director:

Tom Waller

Writers:

Katrina Grose (story by), Don Linder (story by) | 1 more credit »

Director Feras Faryyad returns to his besieged Syria after his Oscar nominated Best Documentary LAST YEAR IN ALEPPO.  Fayyad’s disturbing new doc THE CAVE went on to win the People’s Choice Documentary at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.

THE CAVE refers to the subterranean hospital where a doctor, 30-year old Dr. Amani and her female team fight to save lives while fending off systematic sexism.

The film shot between late 2016 and Math 2018 is set in eastern Al Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. When the film opens, the audience hears bombings, which are regularly carried out by the Syrian Regime and the…

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