"We Dare to Dream": Syrian Filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab Focuses on the Refugee Olympic Team in New Film
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The One, Peace Report. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Amy Goodman with Nermine Sheikh. |
| 0:11.2 | We look now at a new film about the refugee Olympic team in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. |
| 0:17.9 | It follows young refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan, and Cameroon as they fight |
| 0:24.0 | to compete. |
| 0:25.5 | The documentary is called We Dare to Dream, and it just had its world premiere here in |
| 0:31.2 | New York at the Tribeca Film Festival. |
| 0:34.2 | It's directed by Rod Al-Khatip, the Syrian activist and director of the Oscar-nominated |
| 0:40.5 | BAFTA winning film for Sama. |
| 0:43.6 | In this clip from her new film, she introduces herself. |
| 0:48.5 | My name is Watt. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm one of millions of brave Syrians who fought for freedom. |
| 0:57.0 | Many of us were killed. |
| 0:59.8 | Millions more forced to leave Syria, all by Assad and his allies. |
| 1:09.1 | I became a refugee on a day like this, five years ago. |
| 1:19.5 | This is our last time in human history. |
| 1:23.5 | That's a new quote. |
| 1:24.2 | Just like a right medal. |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah, it's my love, yeah. |
| 1:37.7 | The world, no words can describe what I'm feeling now. |
| 1:43.5 | We don't want to force to flee. |
| 1:48.2 | How do I want to flee? |
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