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The White Helmets

Releasing Year: 2016Documentary Mode: Expository ModeDocumentary Genre: Documentaries, Social & Cultural DocsDirector : Orlando von EinsiedelProducer: Joanna NatasegaraDuration: : 40min.Featuring: Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh

Introduction

The White Helmets are a group of volunteers. These volunteers are tailors, bakers, teachers and other ordinary Syrians banded together in 2013 to save others lives, they are working so hard to take care. They saved more than 79,000 lives. But for the work they do, White Helmet volunteers and their civil defense centers are often targeted. Russian and Syrian regime planes bomb civilians, and then they circle back and rescue people and provide them medical facilities.

Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed about 2,000 civilians in six months. Attacks on markets, hospitals, schools and homes are very common. Observers at The White Helmets groups says,“ Warning that plans for a military drawdown may not mean an end to the deaths”.

Note:Since 2013 More Than 130 White Helmets Have Been Killed

In The Same Period, They Have Saved Over 58,000 Lives

Synopsis

A Netflix original short documentary, set in Aleppo, Syria and Turkey in early 2016. As the violence intensifies, The White Helmets follows three volunteer rescue workers as they put everything on the line to save civilians affected by the war, all the while wracked with worry about the safety of their own loved ones. Moving and inspiring, The White is both a snapshot of the harrowing realities of life for ordinary Syrians who remain in the country, and a humbling portrait of the power of the human spirit.

The Best MomentWhen the baby cries and everybody comes to knowthat the baby is still in their.

Main Highlights In areas out of regime control, those who remain rely on a group of volunteers dedicated to saving

anyone in need. Formed in 2013, The White Helmets are also known as the Syria Civil Defense is an organization of

2,900 centers across much of the country. After 16 hour under the rubble, a baby less than a month old still alive under the ceiling that had fallen

on him. Most The White Helmets Volunteers have no experience. To help them cope, team often leave Syria for

month-long training course in Turkey. Abu Zaid’s brother died in the Hospital bombing along with 24 other civilians .

Technical Aspects Original Footage Emotional Shots Expressions Longs shots Close shots Low angle Editing (Creative sequence) Less use of Background Music.

Review of the Documentary

A documentary that will shock you, visually and emotionally, even if you don't fully understand the context of the conflicts in Syria. It also shows the picture that emerges the real living through intractable and unbalanced conflict, bringing home the scale of the international community's failure.

The White Helmets Motto“To save a life is to save all of humanity”

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