The short film “Douma Underground” directed by Tim Alsiofi, edited by Quitaiba Barhamji and produced by Bidayyat received the Best Documentary and Amnesty International awards at the 17^th edition of IndieLisboa Festival in Portugal.

From the jury of the Short Film International Competition: “Faced with an unthinkable situation of terror, many escape or surrender to simplistic considerations or to a journalistic summary. The director of this film takes his post and uses the cinematographic possibilities of observation, the ability to anticipate a repetition, to maintain a shot when everyone runs, to find narratives that come from a melancholic familiarity with a place, to create a film that boldly proposes and shares an idea of cinema, a possible politics of image”.

From the jury of the Amnesty International: “In twelve painful minutes we feel transported into a reality very distant from ours, reminding us of how important is to never stop recording, even when everything around us collapses. The courage of filming under this circumstances and the realistic, but also poetic way the director does it, deserves to recognized”.