50 FEET FROM SYRIA
2015 | 39 minutes | Editor
With a suitcase full of donated stainless-steel bone implants, Syrian-American surgeon Hisham Bismar arrives at a Turkish hospital on the Syrian border ready for anything. What he finds is horror, chaos, and a steady stream of refugees in need of medical care. Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short in 2016.
“... visually brutal ... a harrowing package.”
“... a powerful case for human decency.”