Changing The World Frame By Frame: Syrian Teen Wins Two Awards For Her Short Film
by The Daily Eye Team December 10 2015, 3:01 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secsSixteen-year-old Wala’a is haunted by a terrifying memory—being assaulted by a soldier as she fled the war in Syria. One of more than 700,000 refugees now living in Jordan, she struggles to come to terms with the losses and hardships the conflict has inflicted on her and her family. But Wala’a has found a way to tell her story. “I was always asking myself, ‘How can I express this thing that happened to me?’ I couldn’t talk about it. I couldn’t even write about it,” she recalls.